From: Ashish Khurange <ashishk@it.iitb.ac.in>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: get vfsmount from dentry
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:50:51 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44145873.6010802@it.iitb.ac.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060312135543.GB27946@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro wrote:
>Which one?
>
>
>
The name used by a process to access the file.
>There is no such thing as pathname of a file.
>
Please do not confuse me in jargon of words. I may not be clear in
terminology.
>Moreover, the pathname that makes sense
>for one process doesn't have to resolve to the same file (or even resolve
>at all) for others.
>
>
>
Yes thats it, the pathname that is used by a process to access a file, I
want to that pathname.
>So what are you really trying to achieve?
>
>
To get that pathname along with dentry of the file I need the vfsmount
of that file also.
Is there any way to get vfsmount of a file, when you have its dentry
with you.
- Ashish
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-12 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-12 13:44 get vfsmount from dentry Ashish Khurange
2006-03-12 13:55 ` Al Viro
2006-03-12 17:20 ` Ashish Khurange [this message]
2006-03-12 17:41 ` Al Viro
2006-03-12 18:00 ` Ashish Khurange
2006-03-12 18:23 ` Shaya Potter
2006-03-12 18:54 ` Ashish Khurange
2006-03-12 19:13 ` Al Viro
2006-03-12 20:34 ` Ashish Khurange
2006-03-12 20:45 ` Shaya Potter
2006-03-13 7:24 ` Jan Hudec
2006-03-12 18:24 ` Al Viro
2006-03-12 19:10 ` Jamie Lokier
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