directory path info in vfs readdir

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:12:59AM +0100, Philip de Nier wrote:
> Is there a reliable way to get information about the directory path within 
> the VFS 'readdir' function?
> 
> I tried using 'connection_struct::dir_path' but found that it sometimes has 
> the wrong directory path. The example trace shown below, taken from a 
> modified full audit, shows that the second 'opendir' followed by 
> 'readdir'  wrongly has the directory path ('dirpath='...) of the previous 
> 'opendir':
> 
> smbd_mh_full_audit: opendir|ok|ADir
> smbd_mh_full_audit: readdir|ok|result=.|dirpath=ADir
> smbd_mh_full_audit: telldir|ok|
> smbd_mh_full_audit: readdir|ok|result=..|dirpath=ADir
> smbd_mh_full_audit: telldir|ok|
> ...
> smbd_mh_full_audit: readdir|ok|
> smbd_mh_full_audit: closedir|ok|
> ...
> smbd_mh_full_audit: opendir|ok|.
> smbd_mh_full_audit: readdir|ok|result=.|dirpath=ADir
> smbd_mh_full_audit: telldir|ok|
> smbd_mh_full_audit: readdir|ok|result=..|dirpath=ADir
> smbd_mh_full_audit: telldir|ok|
> ...
> 
> I want to have the directory path information when processing a 'readdir' 
> call so that I can skip certain files that occur in certain directory 
> paths. Should I be able to rely on 'connection_struct::dir_path' to give me 
> this information?
> 
> The smbd version is 3.0.13-1.1-SUSE, on Suse 9.3, Linux 2.6.11.4-21.7-smp.

This code has changed since that release. I'd suggest using the latest
version and seeing if the problem still occurs.

Jeremy.