> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 23:51:16 +0000 (WAT)
> From: Massoud Asgharifard <asghari@linux.ce.sharif.ac.ir>
>
> Is there any fast and secure way to translate from inode numbers to
> dentry pointers? (assuming dentries are in memory.) Is the struct
> list_head inode->i_dentry safe enough to use at all times?
>
> The i_dentry list points to "names" which represent the file "object"
s/represent/represented at some moment/
> of that inode which the kernel has done a lookup for.
> It is not a 1 to 1 mapping, there can be several dentries pointing to
> the same inode, just like the file "bar" and symlinks to it point to
> the same file contents.
ITYM "hardlinks" ;-)
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