Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757113AbYJNM0H (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:26:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755373AbYJNMZz (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:25:55 -0400 Received: from emh05.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.111]:43943 "EHLO emh05.mail.saunalahti.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755291AbYJNMZy (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:25:54 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 716 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:25:54 EDT Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:16:43 +0300 (MET DST) From: Szabolcs Szakacsits X-X-Sender: szaka@dhcppc2 To: Miklos Szeredi cc: tj@kernel.org, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCHSET] FUSE: extend FUSE to support more operations In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1219945263-21074-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <48F4568B.7000609@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Antivirus: VAMS Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 883 Lines: 26 On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > I still got qualms about this ioctl thing. One is the security > aspect, but that could be dealt with. The other is that I really > really don't want people to start implementing new custom ioctls for > their filesystems, as I think that way lies madness. We could limit > ioctls to CUSE and that would be fine with me. Or for non-CUSE users > we could enforce the "standard" format where the type and length is > encoded in the command number. Is this enough to support the most useful/requested file system ioctls, like FIEMAP? Thanks, Szaka -- NTFS-3G: http://ntfs-3g.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/