On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 22:16 +0530, Ashish Khurange wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 16:33 +0530, Ashish Khurange wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> From a given dentry, i want to generate that files absolute path. > >> > >> > > > >absolute path in what namespace??? > > > > > I'm sorry I may not be using right terms. Please consider. > Pathname that starts with root of the filesystem '/'. which "the" filesystem? Each user in principle has a different set of mounts... in fact each process has this. (and no this is not just theory, people are experimenting with a per-user /tmp already) so unless you say which process/user it's for, what you ask is not really answerable. And once answered, the "full path" isn't valid for any other user/process... -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
