Re: fcntl(2) and other file systems like XFS

From: david parsons (orc@pell.portland.or.us)
Date: Wed Mar 22 2000 - 18:44:19 EST


Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> david parsons wrote:
> > >OK, that sort of thing is easy with ELF if you really want to do it in
> > >user space.
> >
> > Except that not everybody uses ELF.
>
> That's ok, everbody who uses XFS uses ELF :-)

     That's only because it hasn't been ported to Linux yet.

     As soon as it gets ported to Linux, I'm dropping ext2 like a hot
     potato and putting XFS filesystems on all of my Linux servers.

     Rest assured that I will NOT be converting my systems to ELF at
     that time.

                   ____
     david parsons \bi/ It's better to leave the kernel interfaces in the
                    \/ kernel than it is to drop them into user libraries
                                                       like Microsoft does.

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