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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-06-26 11:50:15 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-07-20 01:44:05 -0400
commitdae6ad8f37529963ae7df52baaccf056b38f210e (patch)
tree1bfc6f766601e744c2c2c064b97cdefdcca4ad5c /include/linux/namei.h
parentkill LOOKUP_CONTINUE (diff)
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new helpers: kern_path_create/user_path_create
combination of kern_path_parent() and lookup_create(). Does *not* expose struct nameidata to caller. Syscalls converted to that... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index 3439ab862e1d..b8cea804d31a 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ extern int user_path_at(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *);
extern int kern_path(const char *, unsigned, struct path *);
+extern struct dentry *kern_path_create(int, const char *, struct path *, int);
+extern struct dentry *user_path_create(int, const char __user *, struct path *, int);
extern int kern_path_parent(const char *, struct nameidata *);
extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
const char *, unsigned int, struct nameidata *);