Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:33:42 -0400 (EDT) | From | Todd Graham Lewis <> | Subject | Re: PACL Announce (was Re: Experimental yet...) |
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On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Roger Espel Llima wrote:
> >At any time, you may call sys_slam_table(), a new syscall (cf. FIXME), > >to insert a new table. Per Alan Cox's suggestion in North Carolina, > >this is an atomic transaction. Once it is switched to an ioctl, it will > >remain an atomic transaction. The pacladm utility is included which > >does the appropriate marshalling. > > shoudn't that be a sysctl?
I need to pass it an arbitrary-length table; I didn't see how sysctl could really handle that. Then again, I'm not exactly a sysctl expert. If you know of an example where people pass multi-kb args to a sysctl, then please let me know. (The syscall passes a pointer and a length argument; I need something similar.)
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