Re: Server provided ioctl handler details

2009-08-17 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 02:50:18PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > Currently, attempts to handle a ioctl are done in the following order: > > * Use server ioctl handler > * Look up a glibc ioctl handler > * Translate ioctl into an RPC Sounds reasonable. > I'm also considering allowing

Server provided ioctl handler details

2009-07-30 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hi, I've gotten a basic implementation of server provided ioctl handlers working. In which I unconditionally load a server provided module containing the handlers on every call to ioctl, and then immediately unload the module. I would like to discuss some details of the current implementation.