Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Dec 1997 11:38:05 +0000 (GMT) | From | Chris Evans <> | Subject | 2.1.72 /proc, was: Re: /proc/memmap [name from inode?] |
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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Pavel Machek wrote:
> But they are doing lookup of name from dentry. I *think* that you can > *not* get name from inode - inode may have 0, 1, 2, 3, ... names! > (Think of deleted files - 0 names. Think of hardlinks - many names).
The generic pointer of a proc inode is a pointer to a proc_dir_entry. Is this what youi're after?
Oh, here's something you can do to a 2.1.72 kernel, that's fairly nasty: (as root):
rm -f /proc/net/arp
I'm currently messing with the /proc code, so might sort it out.
Chris
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