.TH LLAPI_FIND_PARAM_ALLOC 3 2026-08-13 "Lustre User API" "Lustre Library Functions"
.SH NAME
llapi_find_param_alloc, llapi_find_param_free \- allocate and free struct find_param objects.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <lustre/lustreapi.h>
.PP
.B struct find_param *llapi_find_param_alloc(void);
.PP
.BI "void llapi_find_param_free(struct find_param *" param );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B llapi_find_param_alloc()
returns a pointer to a newly-allocated
.BR "struct find_param" .
The
.B struct find_param
contains the parameters that select which files match a search and how
matching files are displayed.  It may be used in subsequent calls to
.BR llapi_find (3),
.BR llapi_getstripe (3),
and the other functions declared in
.B <lustre/lustreapi.h>
that take a
.B struct find_param
argument.
.PP
The returned
.B struct find_param
object is zero-filled; the caller sets the fields that describe the
desired search before passing it to one of the functions listed above.
Applications should obtain a
.B struct find_param
from
.B llapi_find_param_alloc()
rather than declaring one directly, so that the allocation always
matches the size of the
.B struct find_param
used by the running library, even if the application was built against
an older
.B <lustre/lustreapi.h>
header.  The pointer should be freed with
.B llapi_find_param_free()
when it is no longer needed.
.PP
.B llapi_find_param_free()
frees the memory associated with
.IR param ,
which must have been returned by an earlier call to
.BR llapi_find_param_alloc() .
If
.I param
is
.BR NULL ,
no action is taken.  Memory referenced by fields of the structure is
not freed and remains owned by the caller.  It should be used in
preference to
.BR free (3)
so that applications remain compatible with future versions of the
library that may perform additional cleanup.
.SH RETURN VALUES
.B llapi_find_param_alloc()
returns a valid pointer on success or
.B NULL
on failure with
.B errno
set to an appropriate error code.
.PP
.B llapi_find_param_free()
returns no value.
.SH ERRORS
.TP 15
.B ENOMEM
Insufficient storage space is available.
.SH EXAMPLES
List all regular files below
.IR path :
.PP
.EX
#include <lustre/lustreapi.h>

int find_regular_files(char *path)
{
	struct find_param *param;
	int rc;

	param = llapi_find_param_alloc();
	if (!param)
		return -errno;

	param->fp_max_depth = -1;
	param->fp_type = S_IFREG;

	rc = llapi_find(path, param);

	llapi_find_param_free(param);

	return rc;
}
.EE
.SH AVAILABILITY
.B llapi_find_param_alloc()
and
.B llapi_find_param_free()
are part of the
.BR lustre (7)
user application interface library since release 2.18.0.
.\" Added in commit v2_17_56-xx-gxxxxxxxxxx
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR lfs-find (1),
.BR llapi_find (3),
.BR llapi_getstripe (3),
.BR lustreapi (7)