RFC: New VOP to translate vnode to its component name

Alfred Perlstein alfred at freebsd.org
Sun Dec 7 11:39:56 PST 2008


* Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> [081207 09:17] wrote:
> 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)?

either VOP_VPTONAME or VOP_VPTOCNP

(this is cool)

-Alfred


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