Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

Miklos Szeredi
2004-11-16T19:34:58Z

> Depends on what your /dev node is trying to do. What is is doing
> anyway?

Filesystem requests are passed to userspace and the reply is send back
to the kernel. So it's definitely a character device or socket like
thing.

> Any ioctls? Any wierd, non-chardev like things?

Nothing extraordinary. Messages are sent/received with plain read and
write.

> Again, inline code would have been nice to see so those of us who live
> in our email clients could have reviewed it...

Next time I'll try to split it up in managable parts, and send it
inline.

Thanks,
Miklos