On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:49:23PM +0530, Onkar wrote:
> negative dentry is not associated with any inode (d_inode=0) because either
> the inode was deleted (how ??) OR path name was never correct to begin with
> ( ???? foxed )
> Please try to give some clues as to how inode gets deleted when it is
> associated with a dentry d (d->d_inode) ??? and why the the dentry was
> created in the firt place when the path name isn't correct ??
fd = open("/tmp/foo");
remove("/tmp/foo");
Now "fd" has an open handle to an inode whose dentry was removed from
the filesystem. So it's dentry is now negative.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
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