On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Axel =?iso-8859-1?q?D=F6rfler ?= wrote: > "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Enjoy yourself! And try to not break to many bones! ;-) > > Done! :-)) What a relief. You know, what the project would be without you. :-P > > > [... find=3D5Fdirectory] > > This depends on how the interface (an ioctl() probably) for getting > > the > > directory looks like, i.e. whether it returns an absolute or relative > > path... > > I wanted to introduce a new fs hook for it, not just ioctl() - since > the file system API is not bound on the device API, we are free to add > as many calls as we might, ioctl() should only be used for some rare > cases - at least that's what I think. Yes, right. > Of course, every fs hook might cost one syscall, but that's not exactly > an expensive resource. > Anyway, I come to that soon (the proposed find directory hook) - > currently (without having thought much about it), I think it will just > return a fs relative path; the kernel can than build the full path by > adding the mount point to that. Sounds good. CU, Ingo