On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 05:30:13PM -0800, Amit Purohit wrote: > But my question is if we discard the healthyness then > is it not expected that if I make the sys_stat call > explicitly from within the kernel then it MUST work as > it is supposed to work. Isn't this true for all the > system calls. no. http://www.fenrus.demon.nl/kernel.html I suspect this is also covered in the lkml FAQ. regards john -- "Way back at the beginning of time around 1970 the first man page was handed down from on high. Every one since is an edited copy." - John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/