Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: string to inode conversion | From | "" <> | Date | Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:49:36 +0100 |
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Hi
This should be in kernel space, in the context of system calls.
Basically I'm trying to learn how sys_open() goes from char *filename to a struct inode. I know (or think) that sys_open() doesn't actually use a struct inode, but I wonder how that would go.
Thanks
El dom, 15-01-2006 a las 20:24 +0100, Arjan van de Ven escribió: > On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 19:57 +0100, pablo.ferlop@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi > > > > I was wondering how I can get from a string with a path like "/home" or > > "/lib/libc-2.3.5.so" a struct inode. > > which namespace do you want this in? The init one? or the one from the > user? (most traditional linux distributions only have one namespace, but > now that COW namespaces are merged I expect distros to start > experimenting with per user /tmp, or per-daemon data etc etc) > > This is not a trivial thing... you need a "context" into which you can > ask that question (basically a process) >
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