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I am trying to determine the current working directory when a system
call is issued. im interested in determining this from a kernel module.

however, because system calls are only given a thread* and a void*,
which gets casted, is there any way i find out the cwd?

thanks.

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Cilloniz Bicchi, Ferner

Research Assistant
Dept. of Computer Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
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