Re: d_path to be removed?

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
25 Jul 1997 17:54:24 +0200

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lendecke@math.uni-goettingen.de writes:
>
> I was just frightened by the following comment in 2.1.47:
>
> + * This is broken in more ways than one. Unchecked recursion,
> + * unchecked buffer size. Get rid of it.
> int d_path(struct dentry * entry, struct dentry * chroot, char * buf)
>
> My reimplementation of smbfs depends HEAVILY on this feature. d_path
> could be implemented better, but I NEED the complete path.
>
Linus has said that he regards the abillity to have a getpwd() system call
(or similar; we want to do that for files too ;-) a Good Thing, so I doubt
the feature is going to vanish.

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