Hi Avishay, On 7/24/07, Avishay Traeger <atraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:12 +0900, NAHieu wrote: > Hello, > > Given a file pointer (struct file *), what is the most effecient way > to find out the pid of the process that manages this file pointer? > > I look into the file structure, but still havent seen any way to do that. > > There is one solution: traverse all the processes in the system, and > compare my file pointer with their list of files, but that seems so > ineffective, so I dont like that. > > Thank you, > Hieu I haven't tested this, but what about file->f_owner.pid?
Interesting, but that points to "struct pid", not pid. And I dont see how I can extract pid from it. Any idea? Thanks, Hieu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
