Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 1999 18:28:11 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [Fwd: Getting IOCTL's into VFS File System Drivers] |
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"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > Peter, > > Pardon me, but what APIs? The problem here is that NT supplies the > needed APIs and Linux doesn't. It's not a hack to allow folks to write > USER/KERNEL drivers through a general IOCTL interface. Linux doesn't > have one for FS drivers, but everyone else does. I can't use NWFS as a > boot FS if I cannot open symbolic handles to talk to the FS driver. >
You can't do that anyway! If it is the *ROOT* filesystem -- there is no such thing as a "boot filesystem" in Linux -- you don't have any userspace that you can open symbolic handles from.
There is clearly a disconnect here, and I have utterly no clue what problem you're trying to solve. I'm pretty sure that you're asking the wrong question, because the question you're asking makes no sense.
-hpa
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