On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Sridhar N wrote: > I'm using kernel 2.4.18. I'm searching for a function ( or a group of > functions" to return the inode number given a path name. Someone suggested > that i see fs/namei.c. But the comments say, it's work is done in a function > "lookup_dentry". But i can't seem to find out where it is. I even grepped the > entire source code, and though it is called a few times, there is no > definition of such a function. Please help, this is highly confusing Use path_init() & path_walk() -- JiKos. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
