On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 08:03:33PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
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> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Etay Meiri wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a particular reason why open_namei() is
> > not exported to modules?
>
> Is there any reason for exporting it? By default, stuff is _NOT_
> exported. Think for a moment and you'll see why. Exported functions are
> public API. Protection is weaker than for syscalls, but it's there and
> exporting a function makes harder to do changes in core kernel. Unless
> there are damn serious reasons for exporting something, it isn't done.
>
> In particular, open_namei() is a helper function of filp_open(),
> which _is_ exported. What use of open_namei() do you have in mind?
I'm writing a kernel file server. Unlike NFS, clients send me full paths
so I need to translate them to their respective inodes before calling
->open(...).
The reason I didn't use filp_open() in the first place is because it calls
get_empty_filp() and, when I started writing this thing, didn't really understand
and so I thought it was better for me to call open_namei() directly and duplicate
some of the stuff that was going on in filp_open(). Now I see that there is a better
solution.
Thanks Alexander.
>
>
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