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From: Libor Vanek <libor@conet.cz>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Read from file fails
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 12:34:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040505103420.GA7174@Loki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0405040947070.13706@chaos>

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 09:49:06AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2004, Libor Vanek wrote:
> 
> [SNIPPED...all]
> 
> Did you catch this information? If all you want to do is to
> make a new version of a file, owned by the person who accesses the file
> (like VAX/VMS), then you trap open with O_RDWR or O_CREAT or O_TRUNC
> and make a copy with a numeral appended like: filename.typ;2.

Something like this (only make this copy in another directory)

> You do this by making a shared object that does what you want.
> The total affect upon user-mode code is a delayed (slow) open().

Yeah - I'm now studying how to communicate between kernel and user space (can't find out how to send data FROM ks TO us). What did you mean by "shared object"?

-- 

Libor Vanek

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-05 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-03  0:00 Read from file fails Libor Vanek
2004-05-03 13:11 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-05-03 15:06   ` Libor Vanek
2004-05-04  0:47     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-05-04  1:19       ` Libor Vanek
2004-05-04 13:49         ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-05-05 10:34           ` Libor Vanek [this message]
2004-05-04 14:31         ` Bart Samwel
2004-05-05  9:54           ` Libor Vanek
2004-05-05 10:04             ` Bart Samwel
2004-05-05 10:19               ` Libor Vanek
2004-05-05 10:45                 ` Bart Samwel
2004-05-05 11:22                   ` Libor Vanek
2004-05-05 11:50                     ` Bart Samwel
2004-05-05 10:54                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-05 11:58                   ` Michael Clark
2004-05-04 18:45         ` Paulo Marques
2004-05-05  9:47           ` Libor Vanek

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