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Subject: Re: RAIT device driver feasibility
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Iau, 2005-01-13 at 17:09, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> > Why kernel space - why not a user space shared library you can add to
> > other tape apps?
> 
> A shared library which would override read(), write() in the program ? Why not...
> 
> But do you think you can chain/bounce, ioctl(), read(), writes from a char 
> driver to another ?

I was thinking more of an easy to use shared library and adapting the
various tape archiving apps to be able to use it, not emulation