linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ioctl-fat.2: new manpage for the ioctl fat API

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Message-ID: <87bnlbe2du.fsf@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Date:	Tue, 03 Feb 2015 19:05:33 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	"Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Cc:	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@....de>,
	"linux-fsdevel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] ioctl-fat.2: new manpage for the ioctl fat API

"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com> writes:

> Thanks for the clarification. I have one other question. Currently the
> man page does not document two fields in the __fat_dirent structure:
> d_ino and d_offset. d_ino is presumably the inode number. But, what is
> d_offset?

d_ino and d_off (I guess, d_off you meant) is used only for long
filename part in dirents. And,

	d_off == seek offset
        d_ino == inode number

same with getdents(), but again it is valid only on long name dirent.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
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