> >The one thing I haven't figured out is how to get from the inode to the
> >filename which would be nice ... you comment that this should be possible
> >given the dentry stuff in 2.1 but I can't see an obvious path to do this
> >looking at the 2.1 structures and code in the kernel.
>
> Have a look at how /proc/<pid>/maps does it in fs/proc/array.c
> Basically:
>
> buffer = (char *) __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> if (buffer && pdentry)
> {
> line = d_path(pdentry, buffer, PAGE_SIZE);
> free_page((unsigned long) buffer);
> }
> else
> /* show dev, ino instead */
But they are doing lookup of name from dentry. I *think* that you can
*not* get name from inode - inode may have 0, 1, 2, 3, ... names!
(Think of deleted files - 0 names. Think of hardlinks - many names).
Pavel
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