Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:39:29 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
       torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, openafs-devel@openafs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] in-core AFS multiplexor and PAG support
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On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:03:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:39:20PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> >  (3) AFS multiplexor support. Not complete at the moment, but implemented far
> >      enough to provide access to the PAG mechanism. Further patches will be
> >      forthcoming to make this fully functional.
> 
> This is broken.  Please add individual syscalls instead of yet another broken
> multiplexer.

AFS is annoying and painful no matter how you look at it.  :/

But I don't think 90+ new syscalls is the answer, even for 2.7.

File this under "design mistake we must live with", much like
ioctl(2) itself.

	Jeff


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