Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff]

Ben Greear
2001-11-05T22:02:27Z

Tim Jansen wrote:

> On Monday 05 November 2001 14:41, Petr Baudis wrote:
>
>>So, please, can you enlighten me, what's so wrong on sysctl?
>>
>
> It doesn't work for complex data, especially lists. How do you want to
> configure devices, for example?

How about this:

struct ioctl_payload {
int how_many;
int* numbers;
};

User space sets things up normally, with a valid pointer in 'numbers'.
Kernel space copy_from_user the structure, then copy_from_user the number's
memory...

Can that work? If so, numbers could of course be any data structure we want...

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