Re: [RFC PATCH -v4 00/14] fsnotify, dnotify, and inotify

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 01:17:28PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> getcwd doesn't actually hold a file descriptor to the working
> directory.  If you reread my message, you'll find that I was explicit
> about where the information was stored.

Indeed - explicit, persistent and wrong.  For current directory of a process
we store vfsmount and dentry.  And use those in getcwd() rather than playing
hopeless games with inodes.
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