From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262613AbVG2PMw (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:12:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262615AbVG2PMv (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:12:51 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198]:15276 "EHLO moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262613AbVG2PLJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:11:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:11:09 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: ?X?? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to get dentry from inode number? Message-ID: <20050729151109.GA10453@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <615cd8d10507290802690dd50f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <615cd8d10507290802690dd50f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 29 July 2005 23:02:53 +0800, ?X?? wrote: > > How can I get a full pathname from an inode number ? That's fundamentally impossible to do. Any given inode may have multiple paths associated to it. Think of hard links. Jörn -- "[One] doesn't need to know [...] how to cause a headache in order to take an aspirin." -- Scott Culp, Manager of the Microsoft Security Response Center, 2001