Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ioctl-fat.2: new manpage for the ioctl fat API

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Tue Feb 03 2015 - 05:05:44 EST


"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Thanks for the clarification. I have one other question. Currently the
> man page does not document two fields in the __fat_dirent structure:
> d_ino and d_offset. d_ino is presumably the inode number. But, what is
> d_offset?

d_ino and d_off (I guess, d_off you meant) is used only for long
filename part in dirents. And,

d_off == seek offset
d_ino == inode number

same with getdents(), but again it is valid only on long name dirent.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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