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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: selvakumar nagendran <kernelselva@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pipefs : doubts
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:57:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41E21957.7030406@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050110050450.51158.qmail@web60608.mail.yahoo.com>

selvakumar nagendran wrote:
> Hello linux-experts,
>     I went through the kernel source code file
> /fs/pipe.c and I found that the pipe file system
> configured as a module. But in lsmod I am unable to
> see it. This is my first doubt.

Where do you see that?
fs/pipe.o is always built into the kernel image.

>     My second doubt is, in pipe.c we have lot of
> symbols like 
> 
>   PIPE_WAITING_READERS(*inode)
>   PIPE_WAIT(*inode)
>   PIPE_MAX_RCHUNK(*inode)
>    What are they? funtions or macros? What they do or
> where are their implementation in the kernel source
> tree?

Macros.
See include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h

-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-10  6:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-10  5:04 Pipefs : doubts selvakumar nagendran
2005-01-10  5:57 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2005-01-10  6:38   ` Module : " selvakumar nagendran
2005-01-10 14:48     ` Randy.Dunlap

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