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

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From: Tejun Heo <tj@...>

To: Greg KH <greg@...>

Cc: <fuse-devel@...>, <miklos@...>, <linux-kernel@...>

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

Date: Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 1:59 pm

Greg KH wrote:

quoted text

> Why do we need ioctls? For CUSE? In that case, would we need to copy
> the memory from userspace, into the kernel, and then back out into
> userspace again? Can't we just have a "pass-through" type fixed ioctl
> instead?

Can you elaborate a bit? How the fixed ioctl would know how much to
copy in and out and from where?

Thanks.

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tejun
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[PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 28, 1:40 pm)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Tue Oct 14, 4:21 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Tue Oct 14, 5:37 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Thu Nov 13, 2:26 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Nov 13, 7:47 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Thu Nov 13, 7:54 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Nov 13, 7:58 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Nov 13, 8:34 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Thu Nov 13, 9:23 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Nov 13, 9:42 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Thu Nov 13, 10:29 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Nov 13, 10:48 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Thu Nov 13, 11:10 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Nov 13, 11:52 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Mon Nov 17, 5:17 am)

Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support mor..., Miklos Szeredi, (Mon Nov 17, 6:16 am)

Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support mor..., Tejun Heo, (Mon Nov 17, 11:32 pm)

Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support mor..., Miklos Szeredi, (Tue Nov 18, 5:33 am)

Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support mor..., Tejun Heo, (Tue Nov 18, 6:30 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Thu Nov 13, 12:00 pm)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Wed Nov 12, 4:41 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Thu Nov 13, 2:06 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Nov 13, 7:19 am)

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Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Nov 13, 7:57 am)

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Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Wed Nov 12, 6:00 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Thu Nov 13, 1:54 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Christoph Hellwig, (Wed Nov 12, 5:14 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Wed Nov 12, 5:30 am)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Wed Nov 12, 5:36 am)

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Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Aug 28, 2:20 pm)

Re: [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations, Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 28, 2:23 pm)

[PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support, Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 28, 1:41 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Aug 28, 2:20 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support, Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 28, 2:28 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Aug 28, 3:08 pm)

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Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support, Miklos Szeredi, (Fri Aug 29, 3:32 am)

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Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support, Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 28, 2:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support, Greg KH, (Thu Aug 28, 2:14 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support, Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 28, 2:25 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support, Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 28, 2:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support, Miklos Szeredi, (Thu Aug 28, 2:13 pm)

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Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support, Eric W. Biederman, (Wed Sep 3, 10:32 am)

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[PATCH 7/7] FUSE: implement poll support, Tejun Heo, (Thu Aug 28, 1:41 pm)

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