At 13:54 -0700 6/7/04, Krishna Monian wrote: Is there some other equivalent method of doing what the 3 functions do in a kext? I've answered your original question in another email. However, this is a slightly different question which is worth considering independently. The Core Services File Manager, which implements these routines, is implemented on top of the BSD API. So, in principle, it should be possible to do this work inside the kernel. However, it's not possible to do this in a supported fashion because the mechanism used by Core Services File Manager is private (that is, it's not guaranteed to work that way in the future). There are two mechanism at work here. 1. For volfs volumes, Core Services File Manager works in terms of volfs. You can learn more about volfs in the Q&A. <http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1113.html> However, the take home message of this Q&A is that the volfs file system is not something you should be using directly. It's fine to use it indirectly via CoreServices File Manager, but using it directly will get you into compatibility trouble. 2. For Posix volumes, Core Services File Manager remembers the parent of each node as it traverses the node. That's not something that you can emulate in your KEXT. S+E -- Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/> Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.