From: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gamin-list@gnome.org,
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, iggy@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:39:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096407553.5177.41.camel@issola.madrabbit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096404433.4911.57.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com>
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:47 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:40 -0400, John McCutchan wrote:
>
> > If the ioctl() based interface is so bad, we could change it to a
> > write() based interface.
>
> What baffles me is that a write() interface is infinitely more type
> unsafe, arbitrary, and uncontrolled than an ioctl() one.
The word "Huh?" comes to mind, for some reason.
It's just as easy to pass crap via ioctl() as write(). Regardless, I'm
not the Arbiter Of Taste on this topic. I'm merely following what I
believe to be the prevailing (<cough>Linus</cough>) sentiments are
regarding ioctl()s.
Well, that, and I personally find write(fd, &x, sizeof x) a cleaner
interface. My personal preference is of little importance on this topic,
however.
Ray
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-28 21:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-27 2:02 John McCutchan
2004-09-27 4:17 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-27 20:52 ` Robert Love
2004-09-28 4:41 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-28 2:14 ` Robert Love
2004-09-28 3:44 ` John McCutchan
2004-09-28 17:31 ` Robert Love
2004-09-28 5:45 ` Ray Lee
2004-09-28 19:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-28 16:41 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-28 16:53 ` Robert Love
2004-09-28 17:32 ` Ray Lee
2004-09-28 20:34 ` John McCutchan
2004-09-28 21:20 ` Ray Lee
2004-09-30 4:15 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-30 1:32 ` John McCutchan
2004-09-30 1:34 ` Robert Love
2004-09-30 3:05 ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-30 5:37 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-30 12:43 ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-30 15:29 ` Ray Lee
2004-09-30 16:27 ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-30 16:53 ` Ray Lee
2004-09-30 17:48 ` Paul Jackson
2004-10-01 1:22 ` Ray Lee
2004-10-01 4:09 ` Paul Jackson
2004-10-04 20:58 ` Ray Lee
2004-09-28 20:40 ` John McCutchan
2004-09-28 20:47 ` Robert Love
2004-09-28 21:39 ` Ray Lee [this message]
2004-09-28 22:10 ` Robert Love
2004-09-28 21:32 ` Ray Lee
2004-09-30 4:31 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-28 20:26 ` John McCutchan
2004-09-28 21:10 ` Ray Lee
2004-09-28 21:20 ` Robert Love
2004-09-28 21:21 ` John McCutchan
2004-09-28 21:35 ` Robert Love
2004-09-28 21:50 ` Ray Lee
2004-09-28 22:03 ` Robert Love
2004-09-27 16:21 ` [gamin] [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 [u] Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-09-27 16:24 ` Robert Love
2004-09-27 16:30 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-09-27 16:35 ` Robert Love
2004-09-27 17:10 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-09-27 16:25 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-09-27 17:12 ` [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 Robert Love
2004-09-27 19:48 ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-27 20:22 ` patch] inotify: use bitmap.h functions Robert Love
2004-09-27 20:38 ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-27 19:51 ` [patch] inotify: make it configurable Robert Love
2004-09-27 19:53 ` [patch] inotify: doh Robert Love
2004-09-27 20:06 ` [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 Robert Love
2004-09-27 20:39 ` [patch] inotify: don't check private_data Robert Love
2004-09-28 1:05 ` [patch] inotify: silly fix Robert Love
2004-09-28 17:38 ` [RFC][PATCH] inotify 0.10.0 Mike Waychison
2004-09-28 20:35 ` John McCutchan
2004-09-28 17:48 ` [patch] inotify: remove timer Robert Love
2004-09-28 21:46 ` [patch] inotify: use the idr layer Robert Love
2004-09-28 21:58 ` John McCutchan
2004-09-28 22:08 ` Robert Love
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