Just a thought, what make you think that syscalls are slower? If i understand correctly, syscalls are not context switches, just passing into kernel mode which you will have to do anyway.
On Monday 23 April 2007 12:01:55 Ohad Lutzky wrote: > Hello hackers :) > > I'm doing an academic project at the Technion, which relates to > wireless networking. My host wants to use the project as a base for a > free-beer application, but is not willing - at least at this point - > to make the source code available to everyone. > > Now, to utilize wireless networking in Linux, the sensible path seems > to be along iwconfig, which uses iwlib, which in turn uses ioctl calls > to communicate with the wireless extensions in the Linux kernel. Using > iwconfig directly with "system" calls is most likely out of the > question, for being slow, unclean, and perhaps of changing interface. > Using iwlib directly would be a far better option - but it's licensed > under the GPL, and AFAIK linking against a library counts as > 'distributing' it, which would force our software to be under the GPL. > Using ioctl calls directly seems to be in the clear, but we might have > to use hacks from libiw, which would, again, be problematic... > > Can anyone help make the legal situation here clearer? -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
