Messages in this thread | | | From | Hans Reiser <> | Date | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 21:46:01 +0000 (/etc/localtime) | Subject | glibc developers refuse to support user land fake FS syscalls |
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Stephen, I don't think the glibc folks are in the right about this one, do you see any merit in their position? Is there anything I don't understand about this that justifies the glibc developer's position?
Hans
loic@ceic.com writes: > Return-Path: <Miklos.Szeredi@eth.ericsson.se> > Received: from penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.110]) > by bis.ceic.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA25473 > for <loic@ceic.com>; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:08:38 +0200 > Received: from duna (duna.eth.ericsson.se [164.48.158.2]) > by penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.9.3/8.9.3/WIREfire-1.3) with SMTP id RAA15442 > for <loic@ceic.com>; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:08:40 +0200 (MET DST) > Received: from bcica.eth.ericsson.se by duna (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) > id RAA27784; Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:08:36 +0200 > Received: (from ethszmi@localhost) > by bcica.eth.ericsson.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10908; > Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:08:33 +0200 > Message-Id: <199907011508.RAA10908@bcica.eth.ericsson.se> > From: Miklos.Szeredi@eth.ericsson.se (Miklos Szeredi) > To: loic@ceic.com > Subject: Re: AVFS + Ext2 + reiserfs > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:08:33 +0200 > In-reply-to: <14202.22696.676435.973701@loic.ceic.com> > References: <14202.22696.676435.973701@loic.ceic.com> > > Hi! > > > Now that it's done, I will bind it to AVFS so that the application > > does not even need to use specific system calls. > > Maybe you are better off, if you just replace the __av_virt<sys_call> > with your sys_<syscall> functions. If you want to add your fs to the > avfs module interface you'll need to do a fair amount of converting > (see src/modules/alien.c). > > > P.S. I'm having trouble using avfs-0.4 on RedHat-6.0. I guess that's > > because of the glibc2... > > I have bad news: The Glibc developers deceded that such libraries as > AVFS have no place in this world. So effectively they made it > impossible for me to make AVFS work on glibc 2.1 and up. I have talked > about this with them but the current situation will stay. > > Instead I'm thinking about a solution partly implemented in kernel > (maybe with the help of the CODA filesystem kernel interface). > > Good luck to your work! > Miklos
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