On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, akshata wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use namei() in a module, something like:
>
> namei("/tmp");
>
> but it returns an error (-14). I've seen namei() being used all over the
> fs code in the kernel in a similar manner. Can somebody help me with this?
Where, exactly, had you seen such code? namei() expects a pointer to
userspace. Use lookup_dentry(name, LOOKUP_POSITIVE|LOOKUP_FOLLOW) to do
the same for kernelspace names (assuming that you are talking about 2.3 -
in 2.2 you don't have LOOKUP_POSITIVE, so it's lookup_dentry() with check
for ->d_inode afterwards.
Besides, constant (let alone absolute) pathnames in the kernel are Bad
Thing(tm). What are you actually trying to do?
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