Getting file attributes

[Niki Rahimi]

Hi All,
      I have been working on finding a system call that will retrieve the
current file's attributes, especially the file owner and permissions. have
seen VOP_GETATTR()  in OpenBSD, which returns such information in a
structure. Is there anything equivalent to this on the Linux kernel?
       I've been searching through the kernel code for something equivalent
but my paths have lead me nowhere.

Thanks,
Niki

Niki A. Rahimi
LTC Security Development
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