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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support
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On Friday 29 August 2008, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> However it is a largely an insane idea.

I fully agree.

> Given the pain it is to maintain ioctls I would be very surprised if we wanted
> to open up that pandoras box even wider by allowing arbitrary user space
> processes to support random ioctls.  How would you do 32/64bit support
> and the like?

I think that is not too much of a problem: Just like the file operations in
the kernel have two callbacks (ioctl and compat_ioctl), you need to provide
both operations from user space if there is a difference between them, or
at least a stub otherwise.

Arnd <><
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