Re: adding a system call

[Brian Pomerantz]

This can all be done with a device file and a corresponding module to
handle the mmap and any ioctl()'s you may want to support.  No need to
add another system call.

BAPper

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 02:17:26PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote:
> Mihai Moise <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
> > My system call idea is to allow a superuser process to request a mmap on
> > behalf of an user process. To see how this would be useful, let us consider
> > svgalib.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > With my new system call, a superuser process can set the graphics mode in a
> > safe manner and then ask for an mmap of the video array into the application
> > data segment.
> 
> Ummm, couldn't the the root process open the video device, then pass
> the file descriptor (via AF_UNIX socket) to the user process?  The
> user process would then call mmap() on the open file descriptor. 
> 
> I'm not *completely* sure this would work, but it would avoid creating 
> a new system call if so.
> 
> -Doug
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