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Message-ID: <48B6E79E.6020702@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:59:58 +0200
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC: fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, miklos@...redi.hu,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support
Greg KH wrote:
> Why do we need ioctls? For CUSE? In that case, would we need to copy
> the memory from userspace, into the kernel, and then back out into
> userspace again? Can't we just have a "pass-through" type fixed ioctl
> instead?
Can you elaborate a bit? How the fixed ioctl would know how much to
copy in and out and from where?
Thanks.
--
tejun
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