[OpenAFS-devel] fs sysname

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Harald Barth wrote:

> Looks like the pioctl can return a list of sysnames and the first 4
> bytes in the blob is the number of sysnames. Then it looks like the
> print format if the pioctl returns a list of sysnames is
>
> Current sysname list is 'foo' 'bar' 'baz'
>
> as opposed to
>
> Current sysname is 'foo'

yes.

> 1) Is it a good idea to change the number of words returned by a command
>    like this? (I think NO).

in which way would you prefer it be changed? ;-)

> 2) Shouldn't there be another command to request a list (like fs sysnamelist)?

perhaps so, probably using a separate pioctl in implementation- or common-
space

> 3) Is the sysnamelist feature used anywhere or is it safe to say that that
>    outputformat is a bad idea and change it?

it's used by people who are using sysname lists. i don't understand this
question

-D