On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Peter Waechtler wrote:
> Alexander Viro schrieb:
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Peter Waechtler wrote:
> >
> > > I applied the patch from Jakub against 2.5.44
> > > There are still open issues but it's important to get this in before
> > > feature freeze.
> > >
> > > While you can implement Posix mqueues in userland (Irix is doing this
> > > with fcntl(fd,F_SETLKW,) and shmem) a kernel implementation has some advantages:
> >
> > *thud*
> >
> > ioctls on _directories_, of all things?
>
> Parden? Where are directories used?
> create a file, give it a size, mmap it and serialize access to it with locks.
> That's all.
Check your file_operations for root directory.
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