From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 22 13:07:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA11418 for current-outgoing; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 13:07:18 -0800 Received: from maui.com (waena.mrtc.maui.com [199.4.33.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA11398 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 13:07:13 -0800 Received: (from langfod@localhost) by maui.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA11369; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:10:49 -1000 From: David Langford Message-Id: <199511222110.LAA11369@ maui.com> Subject: Re: iBCS2, socksys and all that jazz... To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 11:10:49 -1000 (HST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511221940.LAA09570@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at Nov 22, 95 11:40:18 am X-blank-line: This space intentionaly left blank. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1209 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >> 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 [[ -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------\ | David Langford - Kihei, Maui, Hawaii - langfod@maui.com | | Maui Research and Technology Center -- Network Administrator | \--------------------------------------------------------------------/