Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:47:25 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Seguin <dseg@texar.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Vnodes and Pathnames Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911151541370.48510-100000@pak2.texar.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911151236010.24265-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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Thanks for your response. Both you and Alfred have answered my questions.
All I really needed was VDIR, since I can get to the filename from the
process-context call to open. I thought I'd ask about VREG anyway. My
search of the archives was fragged and I didn't find anything (I did upon
restarting my browser. grrrr).
Dan
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Julian Elischer wrote:
> you can for VDIR as the getcwd call does so, but not for VREG becasue you
> don't know the directory entry that you used to get to it.
> (You could look in the name cache using a reverse lookup, but I don't know
> that you are guaranteed of success.) PHK may have more to say on this
> topic.
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Dan Seguin wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hello Gurus,
> >
> >
> > Is there any way of getting filepath information from a vnode? What I'm
> > looking for is pathname info for VDIR and VREG types, sort of a reverse
> > namei().
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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Dan Seguin Texar Software, Corporation.
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
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