Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2003 12:39:29 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support |
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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
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