Your resource manager will receive an _IO_STAT message when a client calls stat(), lstat(), or fstat(). You usually don't need to provide your own handler for this message. The prototype for the io_stat handler is as follows:
int io_stat ( resmgr_context_t *ctp, io_stat_t *msg, RESMGR_OCB_T *ocb)
The default handler for the _IO_STAT message, iofunc_stat_default(), calls iofunc_time_update() to ensure that the time entries in the ocb->attr structure are current and valid, and then calls the iofunc_stat() helper function to fill in the stat structure based on the information in the ocb->attr structure.
The io_stat_t structure holds the _IO_STAT message received by the resource manager:
struct _io_stat { uint16_t type; uint16_t combine_len; uint32_t zero; }; typedef union { struct _io_stat i; struct stat o; } io_stat_t;
As with all the I/O messages, this structure is a union of an input message (coming to the resource manager) and an output or reply message (going back to the client). The i member is a structure of type _io_stat that contains the following members:
The o member is a structure of type stat; for more information, see the entry for stat() in the QNX Neutrino C Library Reference.
If you write your own handler, it should return the status via the helper macro _RESMGR_STATUS() and the struct stat via message reply.
If your resource manager is for a filesystem, you might want to include the stat information in the reply for other messages. For more information, see "Returning directory entries from _IO_READ" in the Filesystem Resource Managers chapter of this guide.