Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace
From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Tue Nov 16 2004 - 14:40:47 EST
> Depends on what your /dev node is trying to do. What is is doing
> anyway?
Filesystem requests are passed to userspace and the reply is send back
to the kernel. So it's definitely a character device or socket like
thing.
> Any ioctls? Any wierd, non-chardev like things?
Nothing extraordinary. Messages are sent/received with plain read and
write.
> Again, inline code would have been nice to see so those of us who live
> in our email clients could have reviewed it...
Next time I'll try to split it up in managable parts, and send it
inline.
Thanks,
Miklos
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