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SubjectRe: [PATCH] add a stub by which a module can bind to the AFS syscall
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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.
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