From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 22 15:19:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.rice.edu (cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D505937B417 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:19:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE31A18AD for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:19:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from vaud.cs.rice.edu (vaud.cs.rice.edu [128.42.1.197]) by cs.rice.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1BC01883 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:19:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (hykim@localhost) by vaud.cs.rice.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.0) with ESMTP id g0MNIjI02678 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:18:45 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: vaud.cs.rice.edu: hykim owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:18:45 -0600 (CST) From: Hyong-Youb Kim To: Subject: uniquely identifying a file Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20010714 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What would be a unique id of a file on a local system? Is the full path of a file the only way to uniquely identify a file? Is there any place I can get some info on the funtion textvp_fullpath? Thanks. I am a complete newbie in kernel hacking so any comment is welcome. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message