From: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
Cc: Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inode values in file system driver
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 19:31:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305141931.02928.adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jeptmmgaiv.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
On Tuesday 13 May 2003 15:56, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM> writes:
> |> In other words, readdir(3) will not return dirent for inode with ino 0.
>
> I stand corrected. I was thinking of getdirentries, which does not have
> this problem. But this is traditional Unix behaviour.
>
OK. I've worked round this in my driver. It will now list the file, and does
so with inode 0 (I have not tinkered with anything outside my driver, so this
won't have any impact on any other fs). Is this A Bad Thing?
Adrian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-14 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-10 20:18 inode values in file system driver Adrian McMenamin
2003-05-13 13:51 ` Erik Mouw
2003-05-13 14:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-05-13 14:47 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-05-13 14:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-05-13 18:54 ` Adrian McMenamin
2003-05-14 18:31 ` Adrian McMenamin [this message]
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