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From: ken@inxt.uucp (Kenneth E. Stailey)
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Subject: Re: namei broken
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Date: 1 Apr 89 20:12:37 GMT
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In article <2303@helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:
>I hate to sound stupid when I'm just ignorant, but
>what is namei()?  
namei is a kernel routine that turns a pathname into an inode number