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From: <cspalletta@adelphia.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mikew@google.com
Subject: Re: namespace question
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:31:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5353647.1119551462209.JavaMail.root@web1.mail.adelphia.net> (raw)

 
---- Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> wrote: 
> cspalletta@adelphia.net wrote:
> > I don't believe the following to be an error, but I am curious how it occurs:
> > 
> > Running a kernel module using dpath iteratively on the mnt_mountpoint member ... I get a curious doubling of the mount point names:

>> proc /proc/proc proc
>> sysfs /sys/sys sysfs
>>  devpts /dev/pts/dev/pts devpts
>>  tmpfs /dev/shm/dev/shm tmpfs
>> /dev/hda1 /boot/boot ext2
>> usbfs /proc/bus/usb/bus/usb usbfs

>  Using the same algorithm with mnt_root produces correct results.  

> >                 dentry = dget(vfsmnt_ptr->mnt_mountpoint);
> 
> should be:
> 
> dentry = dget(vfsmnt_ptr->mnt_root);

Yes I pointed that out above - what I want to know is why the doubling of the names for mnt_mntpoint.  It must be used for something, I suppose.

             reply	other threads:[~2005-06-23 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-23 18:31 cspalletta [this message]
2005-06-23 21:23 ` namespace question Al Viro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-23 15:03 cspalletta
2005-06-23 16:25 ` Mike Waychison

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