Re: 2.4 in-kernel file opening

[Martin Drab]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Martin Drab wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Martin Drab wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > can anybody tell me why there is no sys_open() exported in kernel/ksyms.c 
> > in 2.4 kernels while the sys_close() is there? And what is then the 
> > preferred way of opening files from within a 2.4 kernel module?
> 
> Is it just pure filp_open()/filp_close() ?

Now I see sys_open() is doing a strncpy_from_user() conversion, so that's 
why it's not good for in-kernel use. So I assume the 
filp_open()/filp_close() is OK then.

Martin
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