Please do top-posting ! On 1/6/06, Avishay Traeger <atraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: <snip> > If you want more specific answers, please ask more specific questions. > I think the questions are already specific but their explanation actually requires detailed description of what they do as the single functions like generic_file_read/wrtie performs lot of work and other function calls for performing I/O on files :) And in simple terms they do the reading and writing on the files ;) -- Fawad Lateef -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/