well just do a readdir and count yourself where you find a match!! -Rajat On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:44 PM, mohit verma <mohit89mlnc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi all, > is there any way to find out the offset or the directory entry number of a > file in the directory ? > > let me explain a bit more: > > when we open a drectory via open(2) and find out the directory entry by > readdir(2,3) or getdents(2) it automatically increases to the next > directory entry and fills in the dirent structure. > but in kernel space , let we have the parent directory name and child of it > . so is there any way to figure out at what offset or what number (exactly) > that perticular child will occur in the directory contains? > > -- > ........................ > MOHIT VERMA > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
