From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How to get the inode - no path_lookup
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:31:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150916223154.GA22045@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150904T181718-314@post.gmane.org>
On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 04:26:06PM +0000, priyamn wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I happened to come across this discussion. I am having a similar issue.
> I am using Rhel7-3.10.0-123
> kernel. I tried all the options that are mentioned above and none of the api's
> including kern_path() return valid dentry value.
> My requirement is to fetch directory name from filepath.
Why do you need a directory name from a filepath within the kernel?
What problem are you trying to solve that you feel a directory name is
the correct solution?
And remember, namespaces, what does a "directory name" really mean... :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-16 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-07 14:41 How to get the inode - no path_lookup Rishi Agrawal
2012-08-08 7:16 ` Rohan Puri
2012-08-09 3:15 ` Rishi Agrawal
2012-08-09 7:09 ` Rohan Puri
2012-08-13 8:47 ` Rishi Agrawal
2012-08-13 9:34 ` Rohan Puri
2015-09-04 16:26 ` priyamn
2015-09-16 22:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2015-09-17 8:10 ` Rohan Puri
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