Re: mailling list for file systems stuff

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The reason I asked is because I dont have much knowledge of UML.
Can you give me some pointers/links to learn about this? Can we do source level debugging on UML?
 
Thanks

 
On 2/11/08, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 11, 2008 1:00 PM, sahlot arvind <asahlot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Your welcome!
> Just a question - what is your environment?
> Are you using some system emulator? what looks to me is that you are running
> User Mode Linux?
>
Yes, I use user mode linux for my development work.

>
>
>
> On 2/11/08, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Feb 11, 2008 12:45 PM, sahlot arvind <asahlot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi Manish,
> > >
> > >
> > > >http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2008-01/msg00424.html
> > > vfs_readdir is called by  "sys_getdents" system call. Both are in
> > > fs/readdir.c.
> > > So the flow of control is something like this -
> > > $ ls ---> readdir () [implemented by C library]
> > > C lib 'readdir' does sth like this -
> > > till you read all dir entries -
> > >  issue a syscall to invoke 'sys_getdents' to read further entries of
> dir.
> > >
> > > Thus C lib implementation of readdir repeatedly issues a system call to
> read
> > > a particular dir i.e. the loop you are looking for is in C lib
> > > implementation of readdir.
> > > This may also be helpful -
> > > http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/wrapfs/node3.html
> > > Section - 3.3 File Names and Directory Reading
> > >
> >
> > Thanks a lot Sahlot,
> >
> > this is exactly i was looking for.
> >
> >
> > > Hope it helps.
> > >
> > > Thanks -
> > > - Arvind S.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2/11/08, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Feb 11, 2008 10:25 AM, sahlot arvind <asahlot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > You can ask your questions here itself. I guess.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi sahlot,
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, I tried on this list, but didn't get answer sometimes, so I
> > > > thought if there is any file systems specific list since my questions
> > > > are mostly related to it. Below are the urls of my previous unanswered
> > > > questions.
> > > >
> > > > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2008-01/msg00253.html
> > > > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2008-01/msg00352.html
> > > > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2008-01/msg00424.html
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 2/11/08, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Anyone aware of any file system specific mailing lists for
> newbies.
> > > > > > All I know of linux-fsdevel (this is not suitable for newbies :-(
> > > > > > questions ) and some mailling lists for specific filesystems.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > thanks a lot in advance
> > > > > >
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Thanks & Regards,
********************************************
Manish Katiyar  ( http://mkatiyar.googlepages.com )
3rd Floor, Fair Winds Block
EGL Software Park
Off Intermediate Ring Road
Bangalore 560071, India
***********************************************


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