RE: __d_path export and SMP safeness

"Tikka, Sami" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.dazuko.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tushar [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 3:18 PM
>To: Tikka, Sami
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Dazuko-devel] __d_path export and SMP safeness
>
>There is one function d_path. In kernel source 2.6.8, it is 
>exported. (One downloaded directly from kernel.org). Can we 
>use that? It
>internally use the same __d_path function with locking and unlocking.	

Apparently d_path returns the pathname the process sees, which might be
different from the real pathname if the process is chrooted.

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