Re: Getting FS access events

[H. Peter Anvin]

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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