From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
To: sankarshana rao <san_wipro@yahoo.com>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Inode question
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:36:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1090499783.17490.42.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040721225752.90581.qmail@web50902.mail.yahoo.com>
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 17:57, sankarshana rao wrote:
> Guys,
> Thx for the inputs...I got it with path_lookup....
>
> Can I pass the inode pointer back to the user space???
You shouldn't do that.
> I have a scenario in which I have to create multiple
> folders on the harddisk. The number of folders can be
> in hundreds. Instead of parsing the path name
> everytime I need to create a folder (that's what
> sys_mkdir does??? ), I was thinking if I have the
> inode* of the parent folder, I can avoid this parsing
> and directly create a subfolder under the parent
> folder...
Couldn't the program chdir to the parent directory and create the
folders with a relative pathname?
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-22 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-21 18:39 sankarshana rao
2004-07-21 20:25 ` Dave Kleikamp
2004-07-21 20:46 ` sankarshana rao
2004-07-21 20:56 ` Dave Kleikamp
2004-07-21 21:09 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-07-21 22:57 ` sankarshana rao
2004-07-22 12:36 ` Dave Kleikamp [this message]
2004-07-22 14:23 ` Paulo Marques
2004-07-27 1:28 ` sankarshana rao
2004-07-27 11:18 ` Paulo Marques
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