Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add a stub by which a module can bind to the AFS syscall | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | 30 Apr 2003 17:50:45 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 17:33, chas williams wrote: > In message <20030430162739.A9255@infradead.org>,Christoph Hellwig writes: > >So fix the AFS code up to use a routine for each subcall that > >can still map to pioctl for !linux. After that we can continue the > >discussion on how these calls are best implemented on linux. > > because time is precious its quite a bit easier to fix one spot in > the linux kernel than to fix a hundred or so in the afs code.
ehm no. There is no valid AFS code using this since there is no syscall yet ;)
And it IS more work for linux, since 32 bit emulation on 64 bit machines will be a MAJOR pain if everything is this opaque. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |