Re: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 18:00:42 +0100


> PS: How many things would break if we forced ioctls to _always_ pass
>
> struct foo {
> int len;
> char data[len];
> } ?

At the user level, everything would break. ;-) But perhaps it would be
possible to redefine just the ioctl syscall (to take an additional
length parameter, perhaps) and let the library sort it out? This way
user programs would remain compatible.

Olaf

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