Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Sep 01 2008 - 08:04:39 EST


Hello,

Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> So why not just only support well defined ioctls and serialize them
>> in the kernel and allow the receiving process to deserialize them?
>
> I'd like the idea of limiting to well behaved ioctls, but Tejun
> doesn't...

I'm not dead against it. I'm just a bit more inclined to my
implementation (naturally), which means if you're dead against the
current implementation, supporting only the proper ones definitely is
an option, but comparing the pros and cons, I'm not quite convinced
yet.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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