On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Viswanath, Logeswari P (MCOU OSTL) <logeswari.pv@xxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry, I missed mentioning the kernel version: 2.6.32. > > What are the callers of vfs_readdir expected to do? > > I cannot use the generic callback fillonedir/filldir since they are defined in readdir.c and not exported for others. > Should the caller implement his/her own filler function? Is this your own file system? If that's the case then yes you'll need to have a filler function. > > Also, struct linux_dirent is defined in readdir.c. How can callers use this defintion? > Should the caller define it in again his/her kernel module? > > Please let me know whether my understanding is correct. Can you provide more context what exactly are you doing. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Viswanath, Logeswari P (MCOU OSTL) >> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 7:59 PM >> To: 'linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' >> Subject: Reading contents of a directory inside kernel >> >> Hi, >> >> I am new to linux file system. I want to read the contents of a directory from >> my linux kernel module. >> Can anyone please explain how to use vfs_readdir for this? Or is there any >> other kernel API which should be used for this? >> >> Regards, >> Logeswari. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- ---P.K.S -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
