The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2009
Venkata Naga Seshaiah Anumula, Hyperabad, IN;
Bhyrav Murthy Mutnury, Austin, TX (US);
Manish Sharma, Hyperabad, IN;
Prashant Sreedharan, Hyperabad, IN;
Venkata Naga Seshaiah Anumula, Hyperabad, IN;
Bhyrav Murthy Mutnury, Austin, TX (US);
Manish Sharma, Hyperabad, IN;
Prashant Sreedharan, Hyperabad, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for determining whether a soft link of a target file is pointing to a correct file system is provided. A unique identification number for a mounted file system is retrieved from a storage device in response to receiving a request to access a target file in the mounted file system. In addition, an identification number is retrieved from a soft link of the target file in response to accessing the soft link of the target file in the storage device. Then, it is determined whether a match exists between the unique identification number for the mounted file system and the identification number from the soft link of the target file. In response to determining that a match does exist between the unique identification number for the mounted file system and the identification number from the soft link of the target file, access to the target file is allowed.