Re: [PATCH review 14/16] proc: Generalize proc inode allocation

2012-11-19 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebied...@xmission.com): > From: "Eric W. Biederman" > > Generalize the proc inode allocation so that it can be > used without having to having to create a proc_dir_entry. > > This will allow namespace file descriptors to remain light > w

[PATCH review 14/16] proc: Generalize proc inode allocation

2012-11-19 Thread Eric W. Biederman
From: "Eric W. Biederman" Generalize the proc inode allocation so that it can be used without having to having to create a proc_dir_entry. This will allow namespace file descriptors to remain light weight entitities but still have the same inode number when the backing namespace i

proc inode

2001-06-12 Thread Srinivas Surabhi
hi everybody, when i tried to read the inode of proc file/directory using a pointer to dirent which is returned by the readdir()., i am getting a different inode number(32449)instead of which is shown as inode 2 when ls -ia is done. hope it is clear.. thanks for all who tried to clarif