From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:57:02 -0600 From: "Burton Samograd" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers In-Reply-To: <20060330195101.4d9270a7.20h@r-36.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <5D1F520A-5BA0-4789-8D35-61B80544285D@telus.net> <4937e6f0e033b77a2679b5853e19b96d@vitanuova.com> <20060330195101.4d9270a7.20h@r-36.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 27ef8c3c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > ioctl(fd, SETVOLUME, &vol); is more comfortable. I read somewhere (but haven't actually seen it implimented yet) about using xattrs (file system property lists) instead of ioctls and thought that it was a pretty interesting idea. No needing to sort through headers to find some badly acronimized value with no docs on how to use it, etc... Anybody have any comments on the xattr -> ioctl type interfaces? -- burton samograd kruhft@gmail= .com kruhft.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/kruhft metashell.blogspot.com