Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code in userspace

From: Andrew Morton (andrewm@uow.edu.au)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 07:43:52 EDT

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    Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
    >
    > Hmm. You know that I wrote this long ago?

    Well, let's not get too hung up on the disk thing (yeah,
    I started it...).

    Ben's intent here is to *demonstrate* how argv-style
    info can be passed into device nodes. It seems neat,
    and nice.

    We can also make use of a strong argument parsing library
    in the kernel - there are a great number of open-coded
    string bashing functions which could be rationalised
    and regularised.

    So. When am I going to be able to:

            open("/bin/ls,-l,/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY);

    ?
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