FILP_OPEN

Section: The Linux VFS (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

filp_open - open file and return file pointer  

SYNOPSIS

struct file * filp_open(const char * filename, int flags, int mode);
 

ARGUMENTS

filename

path to open

flags

open flags as per the open(2) second argument

mode

mode for the new file if O_CREAT is set, else ignored
 

DESCRIPTION

This is the helper to open a file from kernelspace if you really have to. But in generally you should not do this, so please move along, nothing to see here..  

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