.Sh RETURN VALUES

If successful,

.Fn namei

will return 0, otherwise it will return an error.

.Sh ERRORS

Errors which

.Fn namei

may return:

.Bl -tag -width Er

.It Bq Er ENOENT

No such file or directory. A component of a specified pathname did not exist, or the pathname was an empty string.

.It Bq Er ACCES

Permission denied. An attempt was made to access a file in a way forbidden by its file access permissions.

.It Bq Er ENOTDIR

Not a directory. A component of the specified pathname existed, but it was not a directory, when a directory was expected.

.It Bq Er EISDIR

Is a directory. An attempt was made to open a directory with write mode specified.

.It Bq Er EROFS

Read-only file system. An attempt was made to modify a file or directory on a file system that was read-only at the time.

.It Bq Er ELOOP

Too many levels of symbolic links. A path name lookup involved more than 32 (MAXSYMLINKS) symbolic links.

.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG

File name too long. A component of a path name exceeded {NAME_MAX} characters, or an entire path name exceeded {PATH_MAX} characters.

.El