Re: inode values in file system driver

[Nikita Danilov]

Andreas Schwab writes:
 > Erik Mouw <[e-mail]> writes:
 > 
 > |> On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 09:18:20PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
 > |> > Am I allowed to assign the value 0 to an inode in a file system driver? I seem 
 > |> > to be having problems with a file that is being assigned this inode value 
 > |> > (its a FAT based filesystem so the inode values are totally artificial).
 > |> 
 > |> Yes, you are. However, glibc thinks that inode 0 is special and won't
 > |> show it.
 > 
 > BS. This has nothing at all to do with glibc.

from glibc-2.2.4/sysdeps/unix/readdir.c:

      /* Skip deleted files.  */
    } while (dp->d_ino == 0);

In other words, readdir(3) will not return dirent for inode with ino 0.

 > 
 > Andreas.
 > 

Nikita.