[OpenAFS-devel] Fully Functional Client on Linux 2.6

[Derrick J Brashear]

Wide-reply trimmed. headers shouldn't be bigger than the content of the 
message :-P

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

>> Did anyone even propose a patch that added a hook for the AFS syscall
>> specifically?
>
> Yes.  I don't recall whether this was discussed on lkml or done entirely 
> out-of-band.  It was proposed.  It never happened.

I sent something to linux-kernel; It was at the time just a copy of how 
the nfssrvctl syscall was being hooked.

>> AFS didn't actually
>> need the syscall
>
> ... except to set initial CM configuration, start our various kernel threads, 
> manage PAGs and tokens, and perform control operations on files in AFS.  If 
> you don't care about doing any of those things, then sure, we don't need the 
> syscall.

Several (a lot?) of those things could be done with /proc, sysctl, etc.

You're gonna whine. Good for you. I don't care. Don't waste your breath.