>In the Linux proc filesystem, /proc/[pid]/fd is a link to the >actually the actual pathname of the opened file. > >I am curious how Linux convert an fd to the pathname? Does it >recursively walk back from current dentry to the root? AFAICS the fd has a pointer to the vma of the file (don't ask me why), which in turn has a 'struct file' pointer, which in turn has the required 'struct dentry' in it. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
