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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 2015 12:01:22 -0800
From:      Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ivan Radovanovic <radovanovic@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Detecting new file name after receiving kevent's NOTE_RENAME
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Konstantin Belousov
<kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> VOP_VPTOCNP() still must get the data somewhere. It is usually easy to
> provide the name for a synthetic file system, where the data is fully
> controlled by the filesystem. Also, it is always possible to provide the
> name for a directory on any unix-like filesystem, due to dotdot. Both
> cases are what handled by fs-specific implementations of VOP_VPTOCNP()
> and by the default code.
>
> For the rest, you e.g. must be able to answer with the name for regular
> inode on UFS, given the inode number. If you can provide such code, I
> will be quite amazed.

I'm not sure what you're talking about.  To have a NOTE_RENAME monitor
as originally discussed, the userspace program must have an fd open to
the vnode.  With a vnode, the boring generic vn_fullpath and
vop_stdvptocnp can find a whole path using .. and directory traversal.
It may not be fast, but it is possible.

Conrad



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