Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

From: Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Date: Sat May 19 2001 - 21:48:58 EST


Matthew Wilcox writes:
> On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:22:55PM -0400, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > The transaction(2) syscall can be just as easily abused as ioctl(2) in
> > this respect.
>
> But read() and write() cannot.

Sure they can. I can pass a pointer to a structure to either of them.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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