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From: Don jessup (djessup72, yahoo dot com) Date: 2002.01.07 - 10.40 MST
http://www.linux.it/kerneldocs/sysctl/ --- Don jessup <djessup72, yahoo dot com> wrote: > > 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? > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > -- > This is the antera mailing list. To unsubscribe, > email > majordomo, cryptofreak dot org with message body > `unsubscribe antera'. > Or, for more information, visit http://www.cryptofreak.org/. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ -- This is the antera mailing list. To unsubscribe, email majordomo, cryptofreak dot org with message body `unsubscribe antera'. Or, for more information, visit http://www.cryptofreak.org/.
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