thanks rajat but i need it in kernel space.
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
well just do a readdir and count yourself where you find a match!!
-Rajat
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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?
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