Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 May 1997 06:20:42 -0400 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: Pathname from inode? |
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From: lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 15:49:01 -0700
[much discussion of pathnames deleted]
Something I have wanted for a while is the basename of the inode in the inode (perhaps conditionally compiled in for kernel debugging). Then you can reconstruct a path to the inode. If there were hard links involved then you aren't necessarily going to get the path you expect, but you can get a path.
I should have said something sooner, but Thomas Schoebel's rewrite of the code of the VFS provides this facility people are asking for. He provides it specificlly for the true online mirroring daemon he has written.
I will be working on merging Thomas's new code into 2.1.x over the next couple weeks...
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