Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: An idea .... with code | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:24:30 +0200 |
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jassi brar <jassi_singh_brar@yahoo.com> writes:
> Lately a question has been bugging me: Why do we keep complicated(specific ioctls to set up and set free)
Can you please expand a bit why you think losetup is that complicated and what the problem is with it?
AFAIK you're essentially just moving a minimal version of losetup (with missing features like no offsets etc.) into the kernel and frankly I fail to see the beauty in that. Or rather if you start with losetup, why stop at mount, modprobe, ifconfig, mkfs, fsck, ls[1], ...?
For me it seems more that most of the file system based command interfaces (/proc/mtrr comes to mind) are quite hard to use and I prefer a proper command line tool with a manpage and --help and a real parser any day.
-Andi
[1] I'm sure someone could come up with some scheme to do ls using sysfs and you could find someone on this list who said "cool" :)
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