Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:47:26 +0200 |
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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.
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