Re: file struct's dentry being null?

[Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>]

Shaya Potter writes:
 > I decided to do an experiment, in fput, I did a 
 > 
 > struct file * next;
 > next = (struct file *) file->f_list.next;

->f_list.next points to the ->f_list member of next struct file rather
than to the struct file itself. This is how it works for all struct
list_head embedded into objects.

 > if ( !next->dentry )
 > 	printk("file struct: next's dentry is null, %d\n", next);
 > 
 > and I get a bunch of kernel output along these lines, with 5 different
 > next memory locations.  I only have 3 mount points, so it doesn't seem
 > to be related to that (though I would have thought it might have been
 > the list_head on the superblock).  anyways, just trying to figure out
 > what it's pointing to?
 > 
 > thanks,
 > 
 > shaya
 > 

Nikita.

 >