Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:36:59 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. Message-ID: <20000619173659.G17420@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000619165224.08906@hydrogen.funkthat.com>; from gurney_j@efn.org on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 04:52:24PM -0700 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>
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* John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> [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
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