Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.

From: Werner Almesberger (wa@almesberger.net)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 21:05:05 EST


Alexander Viro wrote:
> That's not obvious. By the same logics, we would need syscalls for
> turning off overcommit, etc., etc.

Okay okay, add file system specific ioctls and sysctl to my list
of alternative mechanisms :-)

> FWIW, I suspect that
> open("/proc/image", O_EXCL|O_WRONLY);
> bunch of lseek()/write()
> close()

Hmm, interesting. Yes, that should work. One would of course have
to retain the current interface for in-kernel use (e.g. MCORE), but
that's probably okay. Let's see what Eric thinks about it - it's
his code after all.

- Werner

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