On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I'm not sure of the correct way to get the required nameidata (to do a >> > vfs_permission() call) from the file descriptor. Can you give me a >> > tip there? >> >> Could you point me at the right way of doing this? > > You don't need nameidata for this at all. Just call permission() with > a NULL nameidata. Thanks Miklos! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html