Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:37:26 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add a stub by which a module can bind to the AFS syscall |
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 04:30:20PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > The four calls implemented by Linux are: > > (*) int setpag(void) > > Set Process Authentication Group number. This could easily be moved into > the kernel proper, with the PAG being stored in or depending from the > task structure somehow.
So please submit a patch for doing this in the kernel proper.
> (*) int pioctl(const char *path, int cmd, void *arg, int followsymlink) > > Al Viro's favourite:-) Do ioctl() on a file refered to by pathname. Can't > be emulated by open/ioctl/close because: > > (a) it can operate directly on symbolic links. > > (b) some of its functions don't require a file and don't fail if one > can't be opened.
You don't expect we merge something that broken? And then as multiplexer inside a multiplexer? This starts to look worse than sys_ipc()..
> > (*) int afs_call(...) > > Local client control > > (*) int afs_icl(...) > > Local client status and logging control.
What's ...?
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