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Re: lookup_dentry

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Sridhar N wrote:

> 	Thanks it worked.  Given two paths, to check if they refer to the
> same file, is it enough to check if their inode number and their mount
> points are same ?  Or is there something else ?

Two paths point to identical file <=> dentry1->d_inode->i_ino == 
dentry2->d_inode->i_ino && dentry1->d_inode->i_dev = 
dentry2->d_inode->i_dev

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JiKos.


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