A process's files, the relation between files in mm_struct and files_struct?
In task_struct
, we can find there are:
struct mm_struct *mm, *active_mm;
struct files_struct *files;
files_struct
contains pointers to up to 256 file data structures, each one describing a file being used by this process.
struct file * fd_array[NR_OPEN_DEFAULT];
mm_struct
contains a vm_area_struct
.
struct vm_area_struct *开发者_开发知识库 mmap; /* list of VMAs */
And in vm_area_struct
, we can find:
struct file * vm_file; /* File we map to (can be NULL). */
So my question are:
what is the relationship between the files in
fd_array
and thevm_file
?Are all the files shown up in the
fd_array
will also be mapped in thevm_area_struct
in a way similar as shown in the picture? Or, are all the files mapped in thevm_area_struct
will show up in thefd_array
?
Thanks,
(source: duartes.org)The files in fd_array
are those that currently have a file descriptor associated with them (eg. opened with open()
, socket()
or similar), and those linked by VMAs are those that are mapped into process memory (eg. with mmap()
). Files can be in either category or in both, so those files in fd_array
are not necessarily linked by a VMA and vice-versa.
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