>>> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:17:12 +0530, "Kamal R. Prasad" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[ ... ] kamalp> I am trying to find a mechanism wherein given an inode kamalp> -one can find the filename with which it is associated. Ah, this indeed has little to do with JFS. Some introductory tutorials on UNIX/POSIX/Linux file system naming semantics (and how they differ from Multics naming semantics) may help. kamalp> The technique that comes to mind is to locate the dentry kamalp> corresponding to it, and then the name field in the dentry. Consider so-called hard links, or what happens if you do 'open' followed by 'unlink' before 'close'. Or you could get the sources to 'find' and check out how the '-inum' option is implemented... :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list Jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
