Messages in this thread |  | | | From | David Howells <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] eCryptfs: ino_t to u64 for filldir | | Date | Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:51:17 +0100 |
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Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> filldir()'s inode number is now type u64 instead of ino_t.
Btw, in ecryptfs_interpose(), you have:
inode = iget(sb, lower_inode->i_ino);
But you have to be *very* *very* careful doing that. i_ino may be ambiguous. My suggestions to make i_ino bigger were turned down by Al Viro; and even it were bigger, it might still not be unique.
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