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
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