Re: function of getname() function

[Alexander Viro]

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 buffer and copies file name from user memory to that buffer.

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