From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@laptop.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -v4 00/14] fsnotify, dnotify, and inotify
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:21:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081222232125.GA25334@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c6d9bea0812221508n75f03ebdsff5bcbabe56eae56@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 06:08:08PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> That's not correct, as /proc/self/fd/<num> and the getcwd syscall make
> clear.
No. These take a file descriptor into account, which _does_ have a
unique path.
> struct inode has a i_dentry member, and via its d_parent links
> you can reconstruct the path, as __d_path in fs/dcache.c does.
reconstruct _a_ path inside the same filesystem, ignoring which link is
wanted, and inside which mount.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-22 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-12 21:51 [RFC PATCH -v4 00/14] fsnotify, dnotify, and inotify Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 01/14] filesystem notification: create fs/notify to contain all fs notification Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 02/14] fsnotify: pass a file instead of an inode to open, read, and write Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 03/14] fsnotify: sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 04/14] fsnotify: use the new open-exec hook for inotify and dnotify Eric Paris
2008-12-13 15:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 05/14] fsnotify: unified filesystem notification backend Eric Paris
2008-12-13 2:54 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-13 15:01 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 06/14] fsnotify: add group priorities Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 07/14] fsnotify: add in inode fsnotify markings Eric Paris
2008-12-13 3:07 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-13 16:35 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-22 13:43 ` Al Viro
2008-12-22 14:45 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:51 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 08/14] fsnotify: parent event notification Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 09/14] dnotify: reimplement dnotify using fsnotify Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 10/14] fsnotify: generic notification queue and waitq Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 11/14] fsnotify: include pathnames with entries when possible Eric Paris
2008-12-13 3:19 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-13 16:42 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 12/14] fsnotify: add correlations between events Eric Paris
2008-12-18 22:28 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-22 2:40 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-22 9:01 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-22 20:06 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 13/14] inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotify Eric Paris
2008-12-13 3:22 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-13 16:44 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-15 15:48 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-12-12 21:52 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 14/14] shit on top for debugging Eric Paris
2008-12-14 22:40 ` James Morris
2008-12-14 22:47 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-18 23:36 ` [RFC PATCH -v4 00/14] fsnotify, dnotify, and inotify C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-22 3:22 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-22 10:58 ` Niraj Kumar
2008-12-22 19:59 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-22 20:53 ` Eric Paris
2008-12-29 18:19 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-22 21:04 ` Al Viro
2008-12-22 23:08 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-22 23:20 ` Al Viro
2008-12-22 23:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-12-25 18:17 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-25 20:33 ` Al Viro
2008-12-26 0:58 ` C. Scott Ananian
2008-12-26 1:44 ` Al Viro
2008-12-27 21:23 ` C. Scott Ananian
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