On Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:30:33 +0800 liubaolin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Steve, > dentry->d_name.len is the qstr length and does not include the > trailing NUL, so it corresponds to strlen(dentry->d_name.name), rather > than strlen(dentry->d_name.name) + 1. But it is still tightly coupled with the actual length of the name. > If you think the extra name_len field here is unnecessary, I can submit > a v2 patch to drop it. Looking forward to your feedback. I'm wondering what the purpose of it is for. The length of the string is also stored in part of the meta data of the event which can be retrieved via: __get_dynnamic_array_len(name) Although that will be strlen(name) + 1. -- Steve
