From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:39:29 -0400 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030513163929.GB30944@gtf.org> References: <8624.1052840360@warthog.warthog> <20030513170317.A29503@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from havoc.daloft.com ([64.213.145.173]:32212 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261722AbTEMQ0o (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 12:26:44 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, openafs-devel@openafs.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030513170317.A29503@infradead.org> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:39:20PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > > (3) AFS multiplexor support. Not complete at the moment, but implemented far > > enough to provide access to the PAG mechanism. Further patches will be > > forthcoming to make this fully functional. > > This is broken. Please add individual syscalls instead of yet another broken > multiplexer. AFS is annoying and painful no matter how you look at it. :/ But I don't think 90+ new syscalls is the answer, even for 2.7. File this under "design mistake we must live with", much like ioctl(2) itself. Jeff