On Thu, 2 May 2002, Sridhar N wrote:
> > 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 ?
struct nameidata nd;
struct dentry *dentry;
int error;
if(path_init(filename, LOOKUP_FOLLOW|LOOKUP_POSITIVE, &nd))
error = path_walk(filename, &nd);
if(error || !(nd.dentry->d_inode))
printk("Problem with %s\n",filename);
else{
dentry = nd.dentry;
}
/* and here you can work with dentry as usual */
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