RFC: New VOP to translate vnode to its component name

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 7 09:16:44 PST 2008


On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 18:03 +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hello Joe,
> 
> * Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Here is a patch to HEAD, along with a man page, for VOP_CNP.
> 
> Maybe this should be called VOP_COMPONENTNAME? I know, it's not as short
> as VOP_CNP, but is probably less cryptic to people who are trying to
> figure out how the VFS works.

I'm open to a new name, but VOP_COMPONENTNAME does seem a bit unwieldy.
What about VOP_VPTONAME (in the same vein as VOP_VPTOFH)?

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
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