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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Num
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:31:13 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105201030550.8940-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Tim Jansen wrote:

> That's why I proposed using multi-stream files. With a syscall like
> 
> fd2 = open_substream(fd, "somename")

You also have "streams" thay are related to many device nodes at once. Sorry.

> you could have several control streams and also be prepared if you want to 
> support multi-stream filesystems like NTFS in the future...

Let's _not_ bring that into this thread, OK?



             reply	other threads:[~2001-05-20 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-20 14:31 Alexander Viro [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-19 19:43 no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants] Pavel Machek
2001-05-19 19:35 ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]   ` <torvalds@transmeta.com>
2001-05-19 19:17     ` Pavel Machek
2001-05-20  9:53       ` no ioctls for serial ports? [was Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Num Kai Henningsen
2001-05-20 13:40         ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-20 14:27           ` Tim Jansen
2001-05-22  5:56           ` Pavel Machek

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