From: David Chow <davidchow@rcn.com.hk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: vfs_symlink return NULL inode
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 14:39:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BAC320B.219B808F@rcn.com.hk> (raw)
Dear all,
I have one question from using vfs_symlink, is it usual after I called
vfs_symlink that will return a dentry with dentry->d_inode == NULL???
The link was sucessfully created but I receive a null inode pointer.
When creating a symlink it should also create an inode. But according to
the documentation about VFS from Richard, the symlink call of
inode_operations, should self call d_instantiate() this also means it
should automatically create an inode pointer. This shouldn't be done by
the caller???? Any hints? the vfs_create works fine and return with a
proper inode number, why vfs_symlink doesn't? Thanks.
regards,
David Chow
next reply other threads:[~2001-09-22 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-22 6:39 David Chow [this message]
2001-09-22 12:52 ` vfs_symlink return NULL inode Alexander Viro
2001-09-23 2:49 ` David Chow
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