Dave, On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Dave Grothe wrote:
> > Now on the ftp site. This would ordinarily just be 2.15.4, consisting > of little compatibility fixes except for the following highly > significant change -- > LiS no longer uses kernel system calls for getpmsg and putpmsg! You crafty devil... > By overloading the read/write functions (special invalid value of the > count parameter), LiS can now do getpmsg/putpmsg without hooking any > Linux kernel system calls. This will work for any version of the > Linux kernel. > If your user level utilities are using the LiS shared object library, > all you have to do is stop any running LiS, ensure that your user > level programs terminate, install LiS-2.16, start LiS, and away you > go. In particular, you don't need to recompile anything in your > drivers or user level programs. The user space magic is all hidden in > the LiS library routines for getpmsg and putpmsg. > You may notice that the archive for LiS-2.16 is smaller than the > archive for 2.15. This is because I have now removed from the > distribution ALL of the kernel patches that have been tagging along > with the distribution for years. At the beginning you say 2.15.4 and here you say 2.16. Which is it? > I finally just got tired of trying to push on the string, otherwise > known as Linus and Marcelo, to get our syscall registration patch into > the kernel. I don't think these guys even open my e-mails. Anyway, > now we no longer need it. Hooray! Kudos to you for thinking outside the box. --brian > -- Dave -- Brian F. G. Bidulock � The reasonable man adapts himself to the � [EMAIL PROTECTED] � world; the unreasonable one persists in � http://www.openss7.org/ � trying to adapt the world to himself. � � Therefore all progress depends on the � � unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw � _______________________________________________ Linux-streams mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams
