On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:54 PM, mohit verma <mohit89mlnc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:41 PM, mohit verma <mohit89mlnc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > hi list, >> > how can a utility like **find** command can map an inode number to a >> > filename? >> > i mean if we pass **find -inum inode_number / ** , it will show us >> > the >> > files associated with that "inode_number". What is the underlying >> > mechanism >> > used in all this ? >> > I have peeped into the findutils code but it seems horrible to figure >> > it >> > out from that code .:) >> >> strace is a lot easier than reading code for something like that. >> >> Looks to me like find is just walking the tree and calling >> newfstatat() on every file. >> >> Here's a short section from strace. Notice in the directory walk it >> gets to charmaps. (I think that's /usr/share/i18n/charmaps). >> >> I'd guess that based on the return from newfstatat() it decides its a >> directory, so it call getdents64() >> >> It then starts calling newfstatat() for everything in that directory. >> (Not as sexy as you hoped I suspect.) >> >> >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "charmaps", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=12288, >> ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> open("charmaps", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 >> getdents64(4, /* 229 entries */, 32768) = 8024 >> getdents64(4, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0 >> close(4) = 0 >> open("charmaps", O_RDONLY|O_NOFOLLOW) = 4 >> fchdir(4) = 0 >> close(4) = 0 >> stat(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "CP1257.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2813, >> ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "EBCDIC-UK.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, >> st_size=2129, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "LATIN-GREEK.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, >> st_size=1605, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "NEXTSTEP.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, >> st_size=2972, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "IBM903.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1566, >> ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "BIG5-HKSCS.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, >> st_size=145960, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "BRF.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1166, >> ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "ISO-8859-9E.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, >> st_size=3023, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "MSZ_7795.3.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, >> st_size=1559, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "HP-ROMAN8.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, >> st_size=3193, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "ISO-8859-7.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, >> st_size=3074, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "DEC-MCS.gz", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, >> st_size=2948, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 >> > Hi , > i am using 32 bit intel system with ubuntu10.10. And what i got after > strace find is something like this: > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "hints", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > open("hints", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 5 > fchdir(5) = 0 > getdents64(5, /* 5 entries */, 32768) = 192 > getdents64(5, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0 > close(5) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "ttf-droid.hints", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2819, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "ttf-mscorefonts-installer.hints", > {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=24745, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "ttf-unfonts-core.hints", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=1260, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > open("..", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW) > = 5 > fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 > fchdir(5) = 0 > close(5) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "ps-cset-enc.data", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3983, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "loc-cset.data", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1261, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "fontconfig.subst-rule", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=1015, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "xenc-cset.data", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=530, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "csetenc-xenc.data2", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=580, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > open("..", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW) > = 5 > fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 > fchdir(5) = 0 > close(5) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "environment", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=79, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "gnome-vfs-2.0", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > open("gnome-vfs-2.0", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) > = 5 > fchdir(5) = 0 > getdents64(5, /* 3 entries */, 32768) = 80 > getdents64(5, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0 > close(5) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "modules", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > open("modules", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 5 > fchdir(5) = 0 > getdents64(5, /* 4 entries */, 32768) = 128 > getdents64(5, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0 > close(5) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "extra-modules.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=225, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "default-modules.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=300, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > open("..", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW) > = 5 > fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 > fchdir(5) = 0 > close(5) = 0 > open("..", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW) > = 5 > fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=12288, ...}) = 0 > fchdir(5) = 0 > close(5) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "gshadow", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=974, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "manpath.config", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5173, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brltty", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=12288, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > open("brltty", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 5 > fchdir(5) = 0 > getdents64(5, /* 265 entries */, 32768) = 9720 > brk(0x975a000) = 0x975a000 > getdents64(5, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0 > close(5) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "kbd-keypad.ktb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2944, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "letters-latin-dot8.tti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=3793, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brltty-vr-all.hlp", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=69, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "mt.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2203, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-pm-front9.kti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=1777, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-pm-status4.kti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=1160, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "kbd-braille.kti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1913, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "sv.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=838, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "gujarati.tti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5279, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "tamil.tti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4356, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brltty-ec-all.hlp", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=866, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "sw.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1262, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-bm-display6.kti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=2887, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-pm-elba_trio_20.ktb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=872, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "sa.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=886, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-pm-el80_ii.ktb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=865, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-pm-routing.kti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=969, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "fr-2007.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=12529, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "ny.ctb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1269, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "fr-cbifs.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=11267, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "en_CA.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6653, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brltty-ts-pb40.hlp", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=3313, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-al-abt_small.ktb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=880, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-hm-sync.ktb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1679, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "bengali.tti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4857, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-ht-bs80.ktb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=868, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "bo.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4629, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "fr_CA.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=11512, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "sat.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=923, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "te.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=880, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-pm-bar.kti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1189, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brltty-mn-all.hlp", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=2074, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "dra.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=882, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-sk-all.ktb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2698, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "ja.ctb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8450, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-pm-elba_trio_32.ktb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=872, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "letters-latin.tti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=3752, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "fr.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=837, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-bm-display7.kti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=2215, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "fr-integral.ctb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3843, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "pl.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=11576, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "sd.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=884, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "de.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=11217, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "kha.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=880, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-ht-me88.ktb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=873, > ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "de-vollschrift.ctb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=3289, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "zu.ctb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1233, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "gd.ttb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3435, ...}, > AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "numbers-nemeth.tti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=1486, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-bm-vertical.kti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=916, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-al-abt_large.ktb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=926, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-pm-status20.kti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=2610, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > fstatat64(AT_FDCWD, "brl-pm-status0.kti", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, > st_size=862, ...}, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = 0 > > > My system doesn't have a system call like newfstatat(). But i suspect > (looking at the strace output) that from the starting search directory find > opens the dirent stream and manually check inode number (if option -inum) > passed to it using fstatat() . Hmm...actually I think it shouldn't need to do a if all you are trying to do is to find a file by inode number. It can be done just by using directory entries and doing a match of the name. The only reason I can think of doing a stat is to check if some entry is of directory type so that it can descend down. but then I tried "strace find . -maxdepth 1 -inum 5" to limit the descend only to current directory, but unfortunately find still calls stat :-(, don't know why. -- Thanks - Manish _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies