richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
GOAL The goal of this patch was to make it possible to configure daemons using simple file IO. The litmus test for this is that commands like these should be possible cat < /var/daemons/wpa_supplicant/use_channel echo 5 >/var/daemons/wpa_supplicant/use_channelYes, there are many other ways to configure a daemon but none with the simplicity and grace of file IO. For proof of this I point to procfs and sysfs.
/me read the whole thread and still does get why you can't use CUSE. ...or AF_UNIX.
Rightly or wrongly, my goal is pretty clear. I want to be able to use file IO to control a daemon. AF_UNIX doesn't help. CUSE/FUSE takes over main() and makes it very difficult to use select() and file descriptors. So it fails too for now.
If you really have an use case which is not covered by CUSE, please fix CUSE.
Yeah, if I proceed from here then modifying the user space parts of FUSE might be the best way to go. Sorry that it took so long to get to the point that my goals for the patch were clearly stated. As I say, I'm an EE who probably need more adult supervision. :) thanks Bob Smith -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
