Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] sane access to per-fs metadata (was Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ioctl-number.txt) | From | (Chip Salzenberg) | Date | Sun, 01 Apr 2001 01:01:59 -0800 |
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In article <OF791BBBC5.E3FCBEEE-ON87256A18.005BA3B7@LocalDomain> you write: >With ioctl, I can easily match a response of any kind to a request. I can >even return an English text message if I want to be friendly.
But ioctl requires allocation of numbers. Ugly and hard to scale.
Alex Viro's idea is cleaner, but still requires a fair amount of coding even for simple interfaces.
Why not have a kernel thread and use standard RPC techniques like sockets? Then you'd not have to invent anything unimportant like Yet Another IPC Technique. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@valinux.com> "We have no fuel on board, plus or minus 8 kilograms." -- NEAR tech - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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