From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269183AbUI2WXN (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:23:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269157AbUI2WWd (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:22:33 -0400 Received: from open.hands.com ([195.224.53.39]:44171 "EHLO open.hands.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269183AbUI2WTC (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:19:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:30:08 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: sys_* in fs/*.c - need most of it for fsproxy module! Message-ID: <20040929223008.GA6125@lkcl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-hands-com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-hands-com-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-MailScanner-From: lkcl@lkcl.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi, i'm writing an fsproxy module. so far i have pretty much cut/paste the entire contents of the following functions - unmodified - into the fsproxy module (based on fuse). any modifications, if any, are to strip out the top of the function which does the conversion from userspace memory to kernel memory. example: i'm just about to cut/paste the entire contents of sys_unlink... minus the calls to getname and putname. does anyone have any objections to me creating a patch which would make the code in sys_unlink, sys_rename, sys_link, sys_this, sys_that, available from inside the kernel? l. -- -- Truth, honesty and respect are rare commodities that all spring from the same well: Love. If you love yourself and everyone and everything around you, funnily and coincidentally enough, life gets a lot better. -- lkcl.net
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