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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 20:00:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: LA Walsh <law@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, LA Walsh wrote:

> Could someone enlighten me as to the purpose of this field in the
> dentry struct?  There is no elucidating comment in the header for this
> particular field and the name/type only indicate it is pointing to
> a list of vfsmounts.  Can a dentry belong to more than one vfsmount?

Yes.

> If I have a 'dentry' and simply want to determine what the absolute
> path from root is, in the 'd_path' macro, would I use 'rootmnt' of my
> current->fs as the 'vfsmount' as well?

No such thing. The same fs may be present in many places. Please,
describe the situation - where do you get that dentry from?
							Cheers,
								Al

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