Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support

From: David Howells (dhowells@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 11:12:36 EST


> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:39:20PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > (3) AFS multiplexor support. Not complete at the moment, but implemented
> > far enough to provide access to the PAG mechanism. Further patches
> > will be forthcoming to make this fully functional.
>
> This is broken. Please add individual syscalls instead of yet another broken
> multiplexer.

At what level? There're two levels of mux...

 (1) four syscalls

 (2) 30-ish pioctls, 40-ish control functions and 20-ish ICL functions.

If I go for (2) as I think you're suggesting, that's on the order of at least
90 new syscalls, probably more when Arla's additions are included...

> and do you really think this is a 2.6 thing?

Yes.

David
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