Re: string to inode conversion

On 1/15/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Basically I'm trying to learn how sys_open() goes from char *filename to
> a struct inode. I know (or think) that sys_open() doesn't actually use a
> struct inode, but I wonder how that would go.

Look at ext2_lookup in fs/ext2/namei.c for example.  It depends on the
filesystem.

-Bob
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