Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: d_path to be removed? | Date | 25 Jul 1997 17:54:24 +0200 |
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lendecke@math.uni-goettingen.de writes: > > I was just frightened by the following comment in 2.1.47: > > + * This is broken in more ways than one. Unchecked recursion, > + * unchecked buffer size. Get rid of it. > int d_path(struct dentry * entry, struct dentry * chroot, char * buf) > > My reimplementation of smbfs depends HEAVILY on this feature. d_path > could be implemented better, but I NEED the complete path. > Linus has said that he regards the abillity to have a getpwd() system call (or similar; we want to do that for files too ;-) a Good Thing, so I doubt the feature is going to vanish.
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