io_uring_prep_linkat - prepare a linkat request
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Description
The io_uring_prep_linkat(3) function prepares a linkat request. The submission queue entry sqe is setup
to use the old directory file descriptor pointed to by olddirfd and old path pointed to by oldpath with
the new directory file descriptor pointed to by newdirfd and the new path pointed to by newpath and using
the specified flags in flags.
The io_uring_prep_link(3) function prepares a link request. The submission queue entry sqe is setup to
use the old path pointed to by oldpath and the new path pointed to by newpath, both relative to the
current working directory and using the specified flags in flags.
These functions prepare an async linkat(2) or link(2) request. See those man pages for details.
Errors
The CQE res field will contain the result of the operation. See the related man page for details on
possible values. Note that where synchronous system calls will return -1 on failure and set errno to the
actual error value, io_uring never uses errno. Instead it returns the negated errno directly in the CQE
res field.
Name
io_uring_prep_linkat - prepare a linkat request
Notes
As with any request that passes in data in a struct, that data must remain valid until the request has
been successfully submitted. It need not remain valid until completion. Once a request has been
submitted, the in-kernel state is stable. Very early kernels (5.4 and earlier) required state to be
stable until the completion occurred. Applications can test for this behavior by inspecting the
IORING_FEAT_SUBMIT_STABLE flag passed back from io_uring_queue_init_params(3).
Return Value
None
See Also
io_uring_get_sqe(3), io_uring_submit(3), linkat(2), link(2) liburing-2.2 March 13, 2022 io_uring_prep_linkat(3)
Synopsis
#include<fcntl.h>#include<unistd.h>#include<liburing.h>voidio_uring_prep_linkat(structio_uring_sqe*sqe,intolddirfd,constchar*oldpath,intnewdirfd,constchar*newpath,intflags);voidio_uring_prep_link(structio_uring_sqe*sqe,constchar*oldpath,constchar*newpath,intflags);
