On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 02:04:24AM -0500, Sampath Peechu wrote:
> i'm trying to get access to the inode information
> about a file using the kernel function "namei()".
> (actually, i call this function from my system call).
> however, it gives me an EFAULT error. if u have
Err, are you trying to call it from somewhere else in the kernel? I doubt
it will work - namei() expects the filename to be in the process's address
space, not the kernel's. EFAULT generally means that a pointer passed as a
call parameter is outside the current process's accessible address space.
S.
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