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All path-forming primitives boil down to sequence of prepend_name() on dentries encountered along the way toward root. Each time we prepend / + dentry name to the buffer. Normally that does exactly what we want, but there's a corner case when we don't call prepend_name() at all (in case of __dentry_path() that happens if we are given root dentry). We obviously want to end up with "/", rather than "", so this corner case needs to be handled. __dentry_path() used to manually put '/' in the end of buffer before doing anything else, to be overwritten by the first call of prepend_name() if one happens and to be left in place if we don't call prepend_name() at all. That required manually checking that we had space in the buffer (prepend_name() and prepend() take care of such checks themselves) and lead to clumsy keeping track of return value. A better approach is to check if the main loop has added anything into the buffer and prepend "/" if it hasn't. A side benefit of using prepend() is that it does the right thing if we'd already run out of buffer, making the overflow-handling logics simpler. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.