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

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 22:36:25 EDT

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    On Sat, 19 May 2001, Richard Gooch wrote:

    > The transaction(2) syscall can be just as easily abused as ioctl(2) in
    > this respect. People can pass pointers to ill-designed structures very

    Right. Moreover, it's not needed. The same functionality can be trivially
    implemented by write() and read(). As the matter of fact, had been done
    in userland context for decades. Go and buy Stevens. Read it. Then come
    back.

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