2012/2/8 Tom Lai(IT) <[email protected]>: > Hi Philipp, > > I checked 2.6.32 that dentry struct contained parent dentry struct. > > > Hi Jack, > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Jack David <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Is possible to get parent directory's inode structure from the current >> inode? If so, how can I do that? > > It should be possible to use the container_of macro to get the parent > dentry struct. Then, you can get the parent dentry d_parent and access > its inode. (Please correct me, if I'm wrong. I didn't test it). >
Okay, I tried container_of, but it did not work. So I tried d_obtain_alias() which worked. But I am not sure if I have to make a call to dput() as well in order to free the dentry obtained. Anyone can confirm this? J > > > Philipp > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies -- J _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
