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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:16:52 -0500
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Menny Hamburger <menny@exanet.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting the nfs_fh of a specific file/dir from the kernel
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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:13:01PM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 10:06 +0200, Menny Hamburger wrote:
> > We implement our own nfsd in user space - so the  kernel nfsd (as well
> > as the lockd) are disabled.
> > We need the handle in order to associate a kernel file handle with our
> > own file id.
> 
> Filehandles are not part of any API that is exported to userland.

/proc/fs/nfsd/filehandle ???

--b.