Re: [PATCH] improving JOB kernel/user interface

Andrew Morton
2004-09-01T23:08:03Z

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.