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From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Why do we pass in a directory and a dentry to lookup() and
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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:50:01 -0500
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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