Re: How to get the dentry value - no path_lookup

2015-09-07 Thread Rohan Puri
On 7 Sep 2015 23:25, wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 12:10:56 +0530, Pria Mn said: > > > return valid dentry value. My requirement is to fetch directory name from > > filepath. > > First off, unless this is a class assignment, your *requirement* isn't > to fetch a directory name. > > Fetching the d

Re: How to get the dentry value - no path_lookup

2015-09-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 12:10:56 +0530, Pria Mn said: > return valid dentry value. My requirement is to fetch directory name from > filepath. First off, unless this is a class assignment, your *requirement* isn't to fetch a directory name. Fetching the directory name is a *solution* you're thinking

Re: How to get the dentry value - no path_lookup

2015-09-07 Thread Rohan Puri
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Pria Mn wrote: > Hi Rohan, > > I am using 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 kernel (RHEL-7). I am trying to obtain > 'dentry' value from file path information. For this: earlier I had written > the code as below : > > #if(LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,39)) > > err=

Re: How to get the dentry value - no path_lookup

2015-09-07 Thread Pria Mn
Hi Rohan, I am using 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 kernel (RHEL-7). I am trying to obtain 'dentry' value from file path information. For this: earlier I had written the code as below : #if(LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,39)) err= kern_path_parent(tmp,nd); #else err= path_lookup(tmp, 0, nd);

Re: How to get the dentry value - no path_lookup

2015-09-07 Thread Rohan Puri
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Pria Mn wrote: > Hi, > > > > I happened to come across the below discussion. > > > > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2012-August/005914.html > > > I am having a similar issue. > > I am using Rhel7-3.10.0-123 > > kernel. I tried all the optio

How to get the dentry value - no path_lookup

2015-09-06 Thread Pria Mn
Hi, I happened to come across the below discussion. http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2012-August/005914.html I am having a similar issue. I am using Rhel7-3.10.0-123 kernel. I tried all the options that are mentioned above and none of the api's including kern_path()