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Subject: Re: Inode question
From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
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On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:39, sankarshana rao wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to call namei() function in order to derive an
> inode from a path name. Can I do this inside a kernel
> module???

>>From a kernel module, you should probably call path_lookup().

Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
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