On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:25:29PM +0200, Jirka Kosina 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()
No, lookup_dentry is never called. At least I can't see any calls to it.
It's just mentioned many times in the comments. It was replaced by
path_walk somewhere in the past, just noone bothered with correting the
comments.
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