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From: Don jessup (djessup72, yahoo dot com) Date: 2002.01.07 - 10.38 MST
Very nice work.
Ok, I finally got the first one ready for review.There
is one known problem (there is no number 22, I go from
21 to 23) and I have questions about #23 and #25. For
#23 I say ioctl, is it really going to be an fioctl or
does it matter?
There are a couple of other options as well,
network, /proc (sysctl). Acutally using sysctl
might be the preferable way. This would allow a
simple script to communicate with the filter as well
as a c,c++,java,perl … . I would imagine that a
user would have to create a c program to
communicate with the ioctl then the shell program
would have to use the c program to communicate the
ioctl. Who know we might find it useful to all
three methods. I guess it would be nice to leave
it open hence making this diagram a little for
general. Here is very old link to a description
of the sysctl interface.
Now I just look at jay’s comment about this I
agree with him 100%.
For #25 I did my best to insert a queue, but I'm not
sure its needed. Is each call we get going to be part
of a unique kernel thread? If so, I think we can block
the thread and eliminate the need for a queue.
I think this might be another case were this is
too much detail. If we specify one way another
person could do it another and defeat the purpose
of us having a patent. Alright, I just read the
next paragraph so maybe you do want the detail in
there, well in that case I would just go with what
jay said in his comments.
I do have question, would it not be beneficial to
stay as general as possible and let the patent
attorney tell us if we need more detail?
One last comment under FEILD OF THE INVENTION
should it not be something more general then NAS?
What if we use some sort of directly attached
storage?
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