From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: fcntl method for file_operations Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:59:05 -0500 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1080248344.3463.78.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <1080237894.2380.5.camel@stevef95.austin.ibm.com> <20040325193545.GC25059@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1080245758.3463.31.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <20040325203102.GX31500@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Steve French , linux-cifs-client@cifs.bkbits.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from dh132.citi.umich.edu ([141.211.133.132]:38528 "EHLO lade.trondhjem.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263614AbUCYU7I convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:59:08 -0500 To: Alexander Viro In-Reply-To: <20040325203102.GX31500@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org P=E5 to , 25/03/2004 klokka 15:31, skreiv viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk: > And for that very reason we don't _want_ to make it easy to add new > piles of vomit into fcntl(). ioctl() is bad enough; until now fcntl(= ) > was somewhat limited, but typeless method will immediately open the > floodgates. If/when it breaks, it will be their problem... POSIX/SUS both allow you to play the arbitrary interface game with ioctl(), but nowhere do they sanction it for fcntl()... > IOW, my vote is strongly against ->fcntl() - the last thing we need > is yet another multiplexor available to Joe Random Driver-Monkey. =46air enough. Then I'll put that to akpm, and we'll resend our origina= l proposal... Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html