From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: "SATHISH.J" <sathish.j@tatainfotech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: function of getname() function
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:47:57 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106180846290.606-100000@penguin.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10106181324110.11158-100000@blrmail>
Hi Sathish,
The function of getname() is to allocate some (kernel-space) memory for
the userspace-passed filename and copy it from user space to kernel space.
Regards,
Tigran
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, SATHISH.J wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry if this question is too silly.
>
> I could not understand what getname(filename) function in the sys_open()
> function is doing. I could not understand from the code what exactly it is
> doing. Please help me with the same.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Regards,
> sathish
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10106031716330.3971-100000@blrmail>
2001-06-04 16:34 ` Reg mkdir syscall SATHISH.J
2001-06-05 5:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-06-08 6:26 ` Reg compiling of source code SATHISH.J
2001-06-14 7:52 ` Reg-directory size SATHISH.J
2001-06-14 8:53 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-14 10:23 ` RAM filesystem directory size SATHISH.J
2001-06-15 10:22 ` Reg file system hash function SATHISH.J
2001-06-15 10:30 ` Russell King
2001-06-17 8:06 ` Reg:dentry->d_mounts value SATHISH.J
2001-06-17 8:14 ` Reg:magic number of the filesystem SATHISH.J
2001-06-17 8:21 ` Reg:use of file_system_type structure SATHISH.J
2001-06-17 8:21 ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-18 7:56 ` function of getname() function SATHISH.J
2001-06-18 7:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-18 7:47 ` Tigran Aivazian [this message]
2001-06-18 8:35 ` Reg:current a pointer to task_struct SATHISH.J
2001-06-18 8:49 ` Reg putname() function SATHISH.J
2001-06-18 9:06 ` Reg:current a pointer to task_struct george anzinger
2001-06-20 9:41 ` filldir() function SATHISH.J
2001-06-20 22:26 ` Jan Kara
2001-06-25 7:11 ` Reg Kernel Debugger kdb SATHISH.J
2001-06-25 7:33 ` siva kumar
2001-06-25 8:36 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-26 4:54 ` Reg Kernel Debugger kgdb SATHISH.J
2001-06-26 10:01 ` using gdb to debug kernel SATHISH.J
2001-06-26 10:57 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2001-06-26 11:10 ` Reg installing a patch on linux SATHISH.J
2001-06-26 16:17 ` Reg Kernel Debugger kgdb Timur Tabi
2001-06-21 12:06 ` Reg:use of file_system_type structure Anuradha Ratnaweera
2001-06-17 8:26 ` Reg:magic number of the filesystem Alexander Viro
2001-06-11 4:59 ` exec format error SATHISH.J
2001-06-11 6:08 ` David Woodhouse
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