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From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.
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Alexander Viro wrote:
> That's not obvious.  By the same logics, we would need syscalls for
> turning off overcommit, etc., etc.

Okay okay, add file system specific ioctls and sysctl to my list
of alternative mechanisms :-)

> FWIW, I suspect that
> 	open("/proc/image", O_EXCL|O_WRONLY);
> 	bunch of lseek()/write()
> 	close()

Hmm, interesting. Yes, that should work. One would of course have
to retain the current interface for in-kernel use (e.g. MCORE), but
that's probably okay. Let's see what Eric thinks about it - it's
his code after all.

- Werner

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