Sounds great. Now an SMSG handler for linux can be written to allow some set of authorized virtual machines to send SMSGs where the text of the message is a command to be executed in linux. With the help of CPINT, the output can be sent back to the originating user as MSG/MSGNOH.
/Tom Kern --- Neale Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just in time for SHARE... > > SNA has created an IUCV device driver that allows an application to use > open/close/read/write semantics to manage IUCV connections. It's an > early > release, but we'd like feedback on utility and function of the package. > You'll find the source for the package at: > http://www.sinenomine.net/vm/fsiucv. > > Here's the HOW-TO: > > This device driver provides the user with the ability to write > applications that use > the open/close/read/write/ioctl APIs to drive IUCV connections between > users and CP system services. > > The driver uses a dynamically allocated major number which is used by > the hotplug agent > iucv.agent (which needs to be placed in the /etc/hotplug directory) to > define and delete the device nodes. > > The driver will check for the presence of VM when loaded and will return > -EACCES if it's not detected. > > The driver accepts a parameter "maxconn" at load time. This will define > how many IUCV device nodes are to be created. The default is 1. > ...snipped... ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
