...information about the link itself, like lstat (2). flags can also be used to control what sort of synchronization the kernel will do when querying a file on a remote filesystem.…...nd errno is set to indicate the error. kcmp () was designed to return values suitable for sorting. This is particularly handy if one needs to compare a large number of file desc…...when the client wants to open the file, it could pass the handle back to the server. This sort of functionality allows a user-space file server to operate in a stateless fashion…...when the client wants to open the file, it could pass the handle back to the server. This sort of functionality allows a user-space file server to operate in a stateless fashion…