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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Menny Hamburger <menny@exanet.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting the nfs_fh of a specific file/dir from the kernel
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:12:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070208201219.GB22631@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A6FDE6B975803043804A49F12F49028E0F573A@hawk.exanet-il.co.il>

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:38:48PM +0200, Menny Hamburger wrote:
> I have a piece of code in my 2.6 kernel that associates an ioctl
> file_operation to nfs in file.c and dir.c.
> This ioctl sends the nfs_fh to a userland application.

Doesn't /proc/fs/nfsd/filehandle do what you want already?

See nfs-util/utils/mountd/cache.c:cache_get_filehandle(), or, for the
kernel side, linux/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:write_filehandle().

(Just out of curiosity--why are you doing this?)

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-08 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-08 16:38 Getting the nfs_fh of a specific file/dir from the kernel Menny Hamburger
2007-02-08 20:12 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-11  8:06 Menny Hamburger
2007-02-13 23:13 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-02-13 23:16   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-02-13 23:19     ` Trond Myklebust
2007-02-13 23:36       ` J. Bruce Fields

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