Re: Suggested dual human/binary interface for proc/devfs

Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:07:03 +0200


Alexander Viro wrote:

> Erm? Even if you s/ioctl()/write()/?

??

The user of write would surely be quite astonished
to find the buffer he passed to write suddenly
modified??

> Unless I seriously misunderstood you, you are going to run into the same
> kind of problems in a lot of situations. What about generation number on
> inodes? I'll go through the code again, but...

How is igen passed to userspace? With an ioctl? 8-)

Tom

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