From: phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk
To: "Ashish Khurange" <ashishk@it.iitb.ac.in>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dentry object
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:05:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FE3bW-0001ks-6C@pr-webmail-1.mail.demon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44042E26.1050608@it.iitb.ac.in>
ashishk@it.iitb.ac.in wrote:
> Hi,
> From a given dentry, i want to generate that files absolute path. I
> don't want to use d_path, because it doesn't cross mount points.
> Here is the algorithm what I have decided.
>
> 1. From dentry object get dname.
> 2. store in string
> 3. if IS_ROOT (dentry) goto stop
> 3. find its parent using dentry->parent
> 4. go to 1.
>
> Stop.
>
> Will this work?
>
> I have one more question, when I have dentry of a file, then if dentries
> of all its parents up to '/' are present in the dcache?
>
AFAIK yes, unless the filesystem is being exported in which case this may
not hold. Read Documentation/filesystems/Exporting.
Phillip
> Regards,
> - Ashish K.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-28 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-28 11:04 dentry object Ashish Khurange
2006-02-28 12:05 ` phillip [this message]
2006-02-28 16:47 ` Ashish Khurange
2006-02-28 16:00 ` Ian Kent
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