From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 19 17:37:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E37237B708; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:37:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e5K0axw24663; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:36:59 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: Jonathan Lemon , Mike Smith , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. Message-ID: <20000619173659.G17420@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000619164329.F37084@prism.flugsvamp.com> <200006192156.OAA09767@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <20000619172041.G37084@prism.flugsvamp.com> <20000619153325.D17420@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000619165224.08906@hydrogen.funkthat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000619165224.08906@hydrogen.funkthat.com>; from gurney_j@efn.org on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 04:52:24PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * John-Mark Gurney [000619 16:52] wrote: > Alfred Perlstein scribbled this message on Jun 19: > > I've never been pain about 'MAINTAINER' so I don't see adding to > > the interface in the future as much of a problem. Perhaps you > > can give me a TODO list that I can include at the top of kern_blob.c? > > oh, I can add a couple that will help what jlemon wants: > fd <-> kblob (so you can read from disk directly into your kblob) > userland <-> kblob (so you can read parts of the data into userland) > > all of these need to support offsets so you can read/write to any place > in the kblob... > > then I think everyone would be happy, no? (unless they decide that I > can't say anything useful and immediately attack me for saying something) I can do that, but the buffers have to be only referenced from the user's fd table and not 'in-flight' -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message