Re: Getting FS access events

H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-15T20:27:18Z

Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > What else could it be, since it's a "struct inode *"? NULL?
>
> struct block_device *, for one thing. We'll have to do that as soon
> as we do block devices in pagecache.
>

How would you know what datatype it is? A union? Making "struct
block_device *" a "struct inode *" in a nonmounted filesystem? In a
devfs? (Seriously. Being able to do these kinds of data-structural
equivalence is IMO the nice thing about devfs & co...)

-hpa

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