Okay okay, add file system specific ioctls and sysctl to my list
of alternative mechanisms :-)
> FWIW, I suspect that
> open("/proc/image", O_EXCL|O_WRONLY);
> bunch of lseek()/write()
> close()
Hmm, interesting. Yes, that should work. One would of course have
to retain the current interface for in-kernel use (e.g. MCORE), but
that's probably okay. Let's see what Eric thinks about it - it's
his code after all.
- Werner
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