Re: loop driver

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 29 Feb 1996 14:02:24 +0000 (GMT)


On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Tom Dyas wrote:

> Two things about the loop driver:
>
> 1) Shouldn't the loop.h header file be in include/linux instead of
> drivers/block? That way, userland programs could get at the ioctl
> constants without an absolute path. Patch below fixes this.
>
> 2) Any sort of "official loop" utilities besides the modified mount
> that I think was mentioned here? (If not, it is trivial to make one
> ...)
>
> Tom
>
There are offical loop utils, look at tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/BETA/loop/*
Bryn

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