Re: PACL Announce (was Re: Experimental yet...)

Todd Graham Lewis (tlewis@mindspring.net)
Fri, 22 Aug 1997 20:33:42 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Roger Espel Llima wrote:

> >At any time, you may call sys_slam_table(), a new syscall (cf. FIXME),
> >to insert a new table. Per Alan Cox's suggestion in North Carolina,
> >this is an atomic transaction. Once it is switched to an ioctl, it will
> >remain an atomic transaction. The pacladm utility is included which
> >does the appropriate marshalling.
>
> shoudn't that be a sysctl?

I need to pass it an arbitrary-length table; I didn't see how sysctl
could really handle that. Then again, I'm not exactly a sysctl expert.
If you know of an example where people pass multi-kb args to a sysctl,
then please let me know. (The syscall passes a pointer and a length
argument; I need something similar.)

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