On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:37:31AM -0800, Amit Purohit wrote: > The parameter for stat are supplied by the user > process and the kernel module only makes the call for > the user process. This sounds like a bad idea. If userland wants the kernel to stat a file, why don't you just use stat() from userland? Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
