Hi, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 02:50:18PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote:
> Currently, attempts to handle a ioctl are done in the following order: > > * Use server ioctl handler > * Look up a glibc ioctl handler > * Translate ioctl into an RPC Sounds reasonable. > I'm also considering allowing the server to specify several modules > containing ioctl handlers. This would be useful if we decide to use > code-blessers since in that case it would be impossible for an untrusted > user to provide a trusted module that aggregates several trusted handlers. > > But then again a device that implements ioctls from several device classes > are probably very exotic (at least when excluding those already defined > by glibc). What do you think? Indeed, I'd say don't bother unless it's trivial. -antrik-
