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From: Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch@gmx.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.4.19] How to get the path name of a struct dentry
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:38:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303121138.31387.torsten.foertsch@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030312101133.A9312@infradead.org>

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On Wednesday 12 March 2003 11:11, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:33:05AM +0100, Torsten Foertsch wrote:
> > Assuming I have got a particular (struct dentry*)dp, how can I get it's
> > full path name.
>
> You can't.  See d_path() for the information needed to get an absolute
> path.

Thanks, that helped.

Next question, is there a way to get the dentry and vfsmount of /? I mean not 
current->fs->root and current->fs->rootmnt. They can be chrooted. I mean the 
real /.
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-12 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-12  9:33 Torsten Foertsch
2003-03-12 10:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-12 10:38   ` Torsten Foertsch [this message]
2003-03-12 10:47     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-12 12:38       ` Torsten Foertsch
2003-03-12 12:53         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-12 13:04       ` Torsten Foertsch
2003-03-12 13:32         ` Torsten Foertsch
2003-03-12 13:59           ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-12 14:51             ` Torsten Foertsch
2003-03-12 10:13 ` Arjan van de Ven

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