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From: Tomas Hruby <thruby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: getting file pointer from dentry/inode
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:02:11 +0200
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> Secondly is this logically correct to get the file
> pointer from inode/dentry etc.

I don't think so. A single file on a disk (inode) can be opened concurrently,
with different mode, with different read position, etc. Many file structures
share the same inode then.

		TH