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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt index 0ab92c26089..b843743aa0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt @@ -187,12 +187,18 @@ The first two output a single character and a string, just like one would expect. seq_escape() is like seq_puts(), except that any character in s which is in the string esc will be represented in octal form in the output. -There is also a function for printing filenames: +There is also a pair of functions for printing filenames: int seq_path(struct seq_file *m, struct path *path, char *esc); + int seq_path_root(struct seq_file *m, struct path *path, + struct path *root, char *esc) Here, path indicates the file of interest, and esc is a set of characters -which should be escaped in the output. +which should be escaped in the output. A call to seq_path() will output +the path relative to the current process's filesystem root. If a different +root is desired, it can be used with seq_path_root(). Note that, if it +turns out that path cannot be reached from root, the value of root will be +changed in seq_file_root() to a root which *does* work. Making it all work |