Re: inode->dentry translation..

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Sat, 3 Jul 1999 14:37:27 +0300

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On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 11:51:16PM +0000, Massoud Asgharifard wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there any fast and secure way to translate from inode numbers
> to dentry pointers? (assuming dentries are in memory.)
> Is the struct list_head inode->i_dentry safe enough to use at all times?

There can be any arbitary number of dentries for same
i-node. which one you would want to pick ?

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>

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