walk - descend a directory hierarchy — Inferno 1ed

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walk - descend a directory hierarchy

Twalk tag [2] fid [2] name [28]
Rwalk tag [2] fid [2] qid [8]

Description

The walk request looks for the file name in the directory represented by fid.

For the walk to succeed, the file identified by fid must be a directory and the implied user of the request must have permission to search the directory. (See Inferno Communications Protocol, Styx ).

After a successful walk, fid represents the specified file. The qid for the new file is returned with the walk reply message.

A walk of the name '.' in the root directory of a server is a no-op.

Entry Points

The chdir system call causes a walk.

One or more walk messages may be generated by any of the following calls, which evaluate file names: bind, create, mount, open, remove, stat, unmount, and wstat.

The file name element '.' (dot, current directory) is interpreted locally and is not transmitted in walk messages.

See Also


bind, mount, unmount - change file name space in Chapter 8
chdir - change working directory in Chapter 8
open, create - open/create a file for reading or writing in Chapter 8
remove - remove a file in Chapter 8
stat, fstat, fwstat, wstat - get and put file status in Chapter 8
Inferno Communications Protocol, Styx

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