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Message-Id: <E1KYoX9-0004Mn-NX@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:55:59 +0200
From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To: hpa@...nel.org
CC: miklos@...redi.hu, tj@...nel.org, fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] FUSE: implement ioctl support
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> This is *hard* to get right, and we screw this up in the kernel with
> painful regularity. The throught of having user-space processes, which
> don't have access to the kernel locking primitives and functions like
> copy_from_user() dealing with this stuff scares me crazy.
What issues exactly are you thinking of?
> That is why I'm suggesting using an in-kernel linearizer.
Lots of complexity, ugh... Even Tejun's current scheme is better IMO.
Miklos
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