Re: function of getname() function

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

Re: function of getname() function

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. It allocates a

function of getname() function

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 - To unsubscribe from this li