Robert and David, Thank you for your help.
> It depends a lot on the requirements. There are some nasty edge cases > where the process of determining a name for an object can be quite > expensive. Here's one of them: > > ln /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf /usr/local/etc/apache.old/httpd.conf > reboot > apachectl start > rm /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf > > Now generate the name of the file that Apache has open. Note that you > can't just look in the name cache, because the object has a name but the > name used to open the object has been invalidated. And UFS even knows it > has a name, because the link count remains non-zero when the unlink of one > of the names occurs -- but the only way it can find the other name is to > search the file system. > > So the first thing to do is to decied what your requirements are: are you > willing to fail in the edge cases like the above? If so, life is a lot > easier :-). I guess I am willing to fail :). Perhaps in some distant future, we will look into the nasty corner cases, but for now, as long as I get a name, it will do. We don't even mind the hardlinks so much, but we cannot afford to use existing vn_fullpath() because it does not guarantee "anything". Thank you, Igor _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"