Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:21:50 +0800 | From | Cong Wang <> | Subject | Re: [RFC Patch] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed port numbers |
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Octavian Purdila wrote: > On Friday 05 February 2010 06:45:38 you wrote: > >> Again, using bitmap algorithm is not a problem and it's better, the >> problem is sysctl interface, how would you plan to interact with users >> via sysctl/proc if you use bitmap to handle this? I would like to hear >> more details about this. >> > > We could use something like positive values for setting and negative for reset > (e.g. 3 would set the port in the bitmap and -3 would reset it).
Hmm, then how do you output the info of those ports? Arrays of bitmaps?
> > But we would need new sysctl and proc handlers to handle the bitmap case (e.g. > sysctl_bitmap, proc_dobitmap_minmax).
Maybe.
Thanks.
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