On Feb 11 2019, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:18 PM Jean-Pierre André
> <jean-pierre.andre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > For several requests, FUSE userspace returns a struct stat to the
>> > kernel. struct stat includes an st_ino field, but FUSE generally has a
>> > separate field for the inode (e.g. fuse_entry_param.ino vs
>> > fuse_entry_param.attr.st_ino).
>> >
>> > Does the kernel use the st_ino value at all, or is just passed through
>> > to userspace?
>
> st_ino value is not used in any way by the kernel, just passed through
> to userspace.
Thanks! And there is nothing that userspace can do with those numbers
other than comparing them to determine if two files are hardlinks of
each other, right? They cannot be passed back to the kernel in a
syscall?
Best,
-Nikolaus
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