Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:16:43 +0300 (MET DST) | From | Szabolcs Szakacsits <> | Subject | Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations |
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On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> I still got qualms about this ioctl thing. One is the security > aspect, but that could be dealt with. The other is that I really > really don't want people to start implementing new custom ioctls for > their filesystems, as I think that way lies madness. We could limit > ioctls to CUSE and that would be fine with me. Or for non-CUSE users > we could enforce the "standard" format where the type and length is > encoded in the command number.
Is this enough to support the most useful/requested file system ioctls, like FIEMAP?
Thanks, Szaka
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