On Sunday 06 April 2003 15:11, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> I keep thinking that it would be nice to have a mechanism for user space
> char devices; it would have to have a mechanism to pass all the ioctls
> to the process that dealt with it.
But wouldn't this make too much overhead, if implemented all in userspace?
I say this, because nbd is also implemented in user- und kernel-space.
Regards Michael Buesch.
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