Re: Getting full path from dentry in LSM hooks

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:12:21PM +0200, Kristian Sørensen wrote:
> I have a short question, concerning how to get the full path of a file 
> from a LSM hook.
> 
> - If the "file" of the dentry is located in the root filesystem: no
>    problem - simply traverse the dentrys, to generate the path.
> 
> - If the "file" is mounted from another partition, you do not get the
>    full path by traversing the dentrys.

There is no canonical full path for a given dentry.

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