From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why do we pass in a directory and a dentry to lookup() and rename()
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:50:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101227055001.GA10149@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikS1BMu+DyZEVZ9H6daoh5dJM7uGPUB9ugdHuRA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 11:14:05AM +0530, Rajat Sharma wrote:
> Hi Theodore,
>
> In both the operations, inodes refer to parent directory while dentry refers
> to child. Hope this clarifies.
Sure, but we can get to the parent directory's inode from the dentry via:
dentry->d_parent->d_inode
... can we not?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-27 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-26 21:45 Why do we pass in a directory and a dentry to lookup() and rename() Theodore Ts'o
[not found] ` <AANLkTikS1BMu+DyZEVZ9H6daoh5dJM7uGPUB9ugdHuRA@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-27 5:50 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2010-12-28 9:46 ` Neil Brown
2011-01-05 11:26 ` Al Viro
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