On Monday 29 April 2002 08:55 pm, you wrote: > 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() Oh, how do i use these. In particular, what should the nameidata structure contain ? Whatever i do, the path_walk gives me a segmentation fault. Am I supposed to initialize this structure to something ? the function link_path_walk suggests so, but since i don't know what to initialize it to, i'm not initializing it to anything. What am i supposed to do here ? regards sridhar -- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing -- Murphy's Laws on Work -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
