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<H2><A NAME="s3">3. <B>Lookup handling</B></A></H2>

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<P>Intimately related to directories is the handling of lookups. In Coda this is somewhat involved due to volume mountpoints, and objects in conflict. During regular use, Venus performs the lookups.
<P>For every ViceFid an inode number can be computed. The routine coda_f2i does this translation. A lookup of a name will return this inode number <EM> except </EM> when:
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<LI> The name looked up is ".."  and it is contained in the root directory of a volume. Instead the lookup is returns the value returned by looking up "." in the directory containing the mount point. Note that this may be recursive.
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<LI> The name looke dup is "." and it is contained in the root directory of a volume. In this case the value returned is the value obtained by looking up the mountpoint in the parent directory of ".".</LI>
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