Reg:dentry->d_mounts value

SATHISH.J (sathish.j@tatainfotech.com)
Sun, 17 Jun 2001 13:36:58 +0530 (IST)


Hi,

Sorry to disturb you all.

In the d_alloc() function in the vfs layer of the filesystem(2.2.14
kernel) we can see the following:

dentry->d_mounts = dentry;
dentry->d_covers = dentry;

Why should both the above be assigned the values of dentry. Wher elase is
this used. Please help me with this information.

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
sathish.j

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