At 17:08 08-10-02, Rick Troth wrote:

>> And while we're at it, it would be helpful to have a userspace
>> program to do it and return a completion code (and maybe even do
>> the CP LINK as well).
>
>I would disagree about the CP LINK part.
>More significantly,  this may be an ioctl() type of call.
>Punching strings to /proc pseudo files is fine,  but not always best.

I don't mind if you disagree, but could you do it a bit sooner so
that I still remember the line of reasoning. ;-)
Clearly /proc is not the easiest interface if you want to make a
robust program to do the work. An ioctl() to issue the LINK and
update the tables would be useful.

Rob

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