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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 1995 16:41:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        langfod@maui.com (David Langford)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: iBCS2, socksys and all that jazz...
Message-ID:  <199511230041.QAA10094@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199511222110.LAA11369@ maui.com> from "David Langford" at Nov 22, 95 11:10:49 am

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The socksys device was made for the previous methof of handling it,
which was to actually have the device :)
> 
> >> 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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