On Saturday 07 October 2006 01:04, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
> Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> Is there a reason that can't be done?
> >
> > No, it can be done. Produce a working patch and then that will be ok, and
> > I guess it will be appreciated (at least by me). It isn't IMHO that
Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That is not a bad attempt, and you show having some uncommon experience with
> kernel code. I'm not reviewing it line-by-line - I should check the APIs of
> VFS calls and usage examples, but I haven't the time.
Cheers. I've never written kernel code be
On Sunday 08 October 2006 18:42, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
> Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > That is not a bad attempt, and you show having some uncommon experience
> > with kernel code. I'm not reviewing it line-by-line - I should check the
> > APIs of VFS calls and usage examples, but
Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> but how hard can it
>> be?
>
> That's a lie, face it... it _is_ hard. Being a very smart programmer helps,
> but as you say documentation is lacking, so you become able to write good
> code when you're able to face lack of documentation.
I meant that
Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wait - I think this specific case does not need any work with dentries, it is
> different from the crash I described. I was giving generic suggestions -
> afterwards I looked at sys_getdents and found that this one was easier.
> Finish this patch this
