Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:10:49 -1000 (HST) From: David Langford <langfod@maui.com> To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: iBCS2, socksys and all that jazz... Message-ID: <199511222110.LAA11369@ maui.com> In-Reply-To: <199511221940.LAA09570@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 22, 95 11:40:18 am
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>> Ok; having just supped and make-worlded -current, I'm hunting the
>> "why doesn't socksys work" problem.
>>
>> There's code in -current for socksys ioctls, but nothing to handle the
>> day-to-day open/close stuff needed for these ioctls.
>>
>> Is this something that's currently under development?
>What you do is link socksys to /dev/null
If this is true and works, then what is it that MAKEDEV is trying do to?
Or why doesnt "MAKEDEV socksys" make soscksys a link to /dev/null?
>it just supplies an fd for the ioctl to be done on..
>the ioctl is recognised by it's ioctl ID on failure
>The iBSC2 code says..
>"hmm that ioclt failed.. Hey I know that.. it's a SOCKSYS ioctl,
>ok, let's do 'THIS'" and it emulates it. so what file you openned
>only matters in that it needs to FAIL the ioctl with the correct manner.
>> ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[
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