linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH -v4 00/14] fsnotify, dnotify, and inotify

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Date:	Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:33:02 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	"C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@...top.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -v4 00/14] fsnotify, dnotify, and inotify

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 01:17:28PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> getcwd doesn't actually hold a file descriptor to the working
> directory.  If you reread my message, you'll find that I was explicit
> about where the information was stored.

Indeed - explicit, persistent and wrong.  For current directory of a process
we store vfsmount and dentry.  And use those in getcwd() rather than playing
hopeless games with inodes.
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