From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753157AbXBKIGH (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:06:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753158AbXBKIGH (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:06:07 -0500 Received: from mail.exanet.com ([212.143.73.109]:38693 "EHLO mr.exanet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753157AbXBKIGG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:06:06 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: Getting the nfs_fh of a specific file/dir from the kernel Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:06:02 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Getting the nfs_fh of a specific file/dir from the kernel Thread-Index: AcdNsv0JVcXnWcelSECJSvHVdOUEIQAAAxQw From: "Menny Hamburger" To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. M. -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of J. Bruce Fields Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:12 PM To: Menny Hamburger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Getting the nfs_fh of a specific file/dir from the kernel On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:38:48PM +0200, Menny Hamburger wrote: > I have a piece of code in my 2.6 kernel that associates an ioctl > file_operation to nfs in file.c and dir.c. > This ioctl sends the nfs_fh to a userland application. Doesn't /proc/fs/nfsd/filehandle do what you want already? See nfs-util/utils/mountd/cache.c:cache_get_filehandle(), or, for the kernel side, linux/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c:write_filehandle(). (Just out of curiosity--why are you doing this?) --b. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/