From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: jh@sgi.com, limin@engr.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
jlan@engr.sgi.com, erikj@sgi.com, chrisw@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] improving JOB kernel/user interface
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:01:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040901160127.3ee02f0b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040901130623.F1924@build.pdx.osdl.net>
Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> * John Hesterberg (jh@sgi.com) wrote:
> > The current job /proc ioctl interface is really a fake-syscall interface.
> > We only did that so that our product didn't have to lock into a syscall
> > number that would eventually be used by something else.
> >
> > The easiest thing for us would probably be to turn it back into a system
> > call, if that would be acceptable for inclusion into the kernel. We're
> > open to other job interfaces, such as a real /proc character interface,
> > or a new virtual filesystem, or a device driver using ioctls.
>
> But that system call would still be a single mutliplexor for many calls, right?
Either that, or 19 separate syscalls...
> Not ideal. Have you tried to map to an fs?
That's worth investigation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-01 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-31 22:39 [PATCH] improving JOB kernel/user interface Limin Gu
2004-09-01 19:38 ` John Hesterberg
2004-09-01 20:06 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-01 22:26 ` Limin Gu
2004-09-01 22:30 ` Chris Wright
2004-09-01 23:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-09-01 23:25 ` Chris Wright
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2011-11-14 17:17 ` dutuuradu
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