Chaskiel M Grundman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 09:36:40 -0400 Derek Atkins
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Why would Red Hat specifically care about OpenAFS? In particular, why
> > would they care about making it fail to work?
>
> Perhaps because they want us to fix our "hideous" interfaces, and
> wanted us to stop waiting for someone else to design the new ones and
> write the necessary kernel bits?
>
> Derrick tried to submit a patch that implimented "safe" syscall
> registration modeled on nfsservctl, and got nothing but pushback about
> how dispatching interfaces suck, and that instead afs should use an
> "open/read/write/close" method. This wasn't from redhat, but it's an
> indication of how the linux-kernel community views the openafs
> implementation.
How is AFS supposed to use an open/read/write/close method to hook
into, e.g., initgroups()?
-derek
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