Volker Lendecke írta: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:25:04PM +0200, Gémes Géza wrote: > >> Unfortunately this time it seems to be a lot harder, the main change >> being at least to my understanding, the fact that the openafs kernel >> module doesn't advertise its services as a system call, and thus we >> cannot link with just libc code which calls into the kernel, but need to >> explicitly use openafs calls for the same propose resulting in a need to >> link to their code. >> Hope is not lost totally yet as I've read about some work of developing >> a GPL licensed kernel module, and then we could use some glue code from >> there. >> > > While not having looked at AFS code, it must at the end come > down to some syscall. Either an ioctl, a write call to some > code in /proc/whatever, or something else. 99% the coding > work is just setting up the right structures and make that > call. > > Volker > Yes it does an ioctl to /proc/fs/openafs/......, but if I look at the code my implementation can be GPL released?
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