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
