[OpenAFS-devel] Final Mac OS Steps

[Derrick Brashear]

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On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Barry Fawthrop <barry@isscp.com> wrote:

> Yes Derrick, you are quite right.
>
> This does lead me to two questions
>
> (1) What is the need for the kernel module portion and what are it's
> functions
> could this be managed some other way, perhaps without a kernel module?
>

it's to make files available as files. you could do it in an application but
you'd need to do it in every application which you wanted to have AFS
access. not much fun there.

>
> (I'm no expert in these things, but I do have a good grasp of computing
> and always willing to learn more)
>
>
> (2) I'm finding that pr_Initialize fails when it get to
> process.c  savecontext
>

LWP_SP et al are probably wrong for your hardware.

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<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Barry F=
awthrop <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:barry@isscp.com">barry@issc=
p.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"b=
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Yes Derrick, you are quite right.<br>
<br>
This does lead me to two questions<br>
<br>
(1) What is the need for the kernel module portion and what are it&#39;s fu=
nctions<br>
could this be managed some other way, perhaps without a kernel module?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>it&#39;s to make files available as files. you could =
do it in an application but you&#39;d need to do it in every application wh=
ich you wanted to have AFS access. not much fun there. <br></div><blockquot=
e class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);=
 margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
(I&#39;m no expert in these things, but I do have a good grasp of computing=
<br>
and always willing to learn more)<br>
<br>
<br>
(2) I&#39;m finding that pr_Initialize fails when it get to<br>
process.c =A0savecontext<br>
</blockquote><div><br>LWP_SP et al are probably wrong for your hardware.<br=
></div></div><br>

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