11 Jan
2017
11 Jan
'17
3:43 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:40:03PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
The nice idea in RFS was that it supported remote
devices, but the iotcl
handling was a problem in AT&T UNIX before SVr4 ??? added a flag to tell
whether the data source was in kernel or userland. I am not sure wether RFS
had a concept like XDR for ioctls.
I believe it did not.
The funny thing: RFS was supported in SunOS4, but not
in SunOS-5.
And Howard Chartok was ecstatic over that decision (he was my office
mate and did the port into SunOS 4.x. Not one of his favorite projects.)