Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 May 2001 13:26:30 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Getting FS access events |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > What else could it be, since it's a "struct inode *"? NULL? > > struct block_device *, for one thing. We'll have to do that as soon > as we do block devices in pagecache. >
How would you know what datatype it is? A union? Making "struct block_device *" a "struct inode *" in a nonmounted filesystem? In a devfs? (Seriously. Being able to do these kinds of data-structural equivalence is IMO the nice thing about devfs & co...)
-hpa
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