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Subject: Re: string to inode conversion
From: "pablo.ferlop@gmail.com" <pablo.ferlop@gmail.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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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)
>