Re: vode to pathname

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: "Kamal R. Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: So the question is, how do I get hold of pathname given vnode*/(inode, devno, generation no) -without relying on the name cache (on freebsd)? You can't. The semantics of Unix file systems are such

Re: vode to pathname

2005-08-24 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Kamal R. Prasad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So the question is, how do I get hold of pathname given > vnode*/(inode, devno, generation no) -without relying on the name > cache (on freebsd)? You can't. The semantics of Unix file systems are such that the mapping from file name to file is one-w

vode to pathname

2005-08-24 Thread Kamal R. Prasad
hello, Im working on implementing some code on AIX. I have a problem that there is no name cache access to end users in AIX, but I do know that it implements NFS4 i.e. the underlyign architecture is pretty much the same. So the question is, how do I get hold of pathname given vnode*/(inode, devn