Re: 2.4 Q: list of open files per inode?

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>]

On Jul 19 2007 02:01, Jacob A wrote:
>
> How can a device driver go over the  list of all the files that are open on a
> specific inode instance?

pseudo-code:

task_list_lock;
for each process; do
	lock_fdtable;
	for each filedescriptor; do
		do_something(fd->file_ptr);
	unlock_fdtable;
task_list_unlock;


Though, you really don't want to do that.



	Jan
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