From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 27 13:32:47 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA28130 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 13:32:47 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA28122 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 13:32:40 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA21806; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 13:32:08 -0800 To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Am I dreaming? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jan 95 14:15:41 MST." <9501272115.AA00468@cs.weber.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 13:32:08 -0800 Message-ID: <21803.791242328@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > File system ioctl()'s are beauty incarnate. I didn't know opium was available in Utah again! I thought the last crackdown had the supply pretty much dried up! :-) And yes, the *dir calls vie closely with ioctl() for sheer evil, though I think ioctl() wins. A filesystem paradigm where to extend it you have to add magic little integers in sys/ioctl.h. I must stop. I am feeling seasick already. Jordan