On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 11:35:01AM +0200, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>>>> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
[..]
> > - struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> > + struct inode *inode = (struct inode*)page->mapping->host;
>
> No. Not good enough for those of us who actually need a dentry. c.f.
> the 'readlink' code.
Why isn't the inode good enough? What's the (doubtless embarassingly
obvious) reason that I've missed for the file handle not simply being an
(inode number, inode generation) pair?
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