Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/17] VFS: Implement handling for pathless pioctls | Date | Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:26:37 +0100 |
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Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to create a virtual device, open the > mountpoint, or do _something_ that associates these calls with AFS > directly instead of having the kernel magically route the call to a > specific filesystem?
Ummm... You mean like mkdir, rmdir, symlink, readlink, mknod, creat, open, unlink, etc. aren't magically routed by the kernel to a specific filesystem based on the pathname?
The exception to that is pathless pioctls which are most annoying and require special handling and foreknowledge whatever.
David
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