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

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Sat, 19 May 2001 22:48:58 -0400

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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