Unified getcwd() implementation
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
pjd at FreeBSD.org
Sat May 8 12:33:25 PDT 2004
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 01:14:12AM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
+> > What would be gained from this patch is:
+> > - consistency
+>
+> The only differences I can see between the current implementation and the
+> proposed new implementation are: (a) if not all the name components are in
+> the namecache, the (possibly stale) entries can be used instead of
+> those obtained through readdir, and (b) getcwd() works on unionfs again
+> because it compares vnode pointers instead of device/inode pairs.
+> Am I missing something?
It can be used in kernel code.
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