Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 May 2001 22:36:25 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code |
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On Sat, 19 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:
> The transaction(2) syscall can be just as easily abused as ioctl(2) in > this respect. People can pass pointers to ill-designed structures very
Right. Moreover, it's not needed. The same functionality can be trivially implemented by write() and read(). As the matter of fact, had been done in userland context for decades. Go and buy Stevens. Read it. Then come back.
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