Open and copy a file from the kernel

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 27 May 2014 10:19:37 +0300, Nada Saif said:
> I want to process a copy operation from file sent from user space - this
> copying should be inside the kernel..

Why? What problem are you trying to solve by doing this?  This is almost
certainly a bad design, for a number of reasons.

And there's probably a better way to do what you're trying to accomplish.

> I read about using filp_open , will this help me ?

Probably not.

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