> How can I get a full pathname from an inode number ? (Our data > structure only keep track inode number instead of pathname in > order to keep thin, so don't have any information but inode > number.)
Except in extreme circumstances (there's some horrible kludgery in the NFS code), you don't. Just store a dentry pointer to begin with; it's easy to map from dentry to inode. In addition to files with multiple names, you can have files with no names, made by the usual Unix trick of deleting a file after opening it. The NFS kludgery is required by the short-sighted design of the NFS protocol. Don't emulate it, or you will be lynched by a mob of angry kernel developers with torches and pitchforks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
