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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: e m <eyubo@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: path_lookup for executable
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:05:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164009958.31358.564.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY107-F318881FF4ADDFBA789F97BABED0@phx.gbl>

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 04:00 +0000, e m wrote:
> I am trying to get inode for an executable program. For example, I wish to 
> get inode for /usr/jdk/bin/java file in a module. The following call always 
> return an error. Is there a way to get the inode of current process, 
> assuming I have access to "current"


Hi,

what makes you think the current executable has any meaning? It can be
unlinked, renamed or moved in the directory hierarchy since the program
was started... (and if you would go by inode number.. then there's
multiple answers possible)



  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-20  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-20  4:00 e m
2006-11-20  8:05 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-11-20 19:14   ` e m
2006-11-20 19:27     ` Arjan van de Ven

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