Re: [RFC Patch] net: reserve ports for applications using fixed portnumbers

[Cong Wang]

Octavian Purdila wrote:
> On Friday 05 February 2010 06:45:38 you wrote:
>
> > Again, using bitmap algorithm is not a problem and it's better, the
> > problem is sysctl interface, how would you plan to interact with users
> > via sysctl/proc if you use bitmap to handle this? I would like to hear
> > more details about this.
>
> We could use something like positive values for setting and negative for reset 
> (e.g. 3 would set the port in the bitmap and -3 would reset it).


Hmm, then how do you output the info of those ports? Arrays of bitmaps?

> But we would need new sysctl and proc handlers to handle the bitmap case (e.g. 
> sysctl_bitmap, proc_dobitmap_minmax).

Maybe.

Thanks.
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