From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sat Apr 30 11:29:35 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de X-ME-UUID: 20050430092608648.9E3DD1C002AD@mwinf0606.wanadoo.fr Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 11:27:45 +0200 From: Patrice Mandin To: Mint list Subject: Re: [MiNT] Loopback device for MiNT, request for comments Message-Id: <20050430112745.4f25da2b.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: References: <20050429203536.75299a02.mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr> Organization: Chez moi X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mandin.patrice@wanadoo.fr Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS X-Spam-Level: * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de id j3U9TZs2018490 Le Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:44:38 +0200 (CEST) Frank Naumann a écrit: > Hello! > > > going further, is if it would work. To have it working, the device > > driver needs to call standard fs functions to access the bound file, > > so is MiNT's gemdos part reentrant, i.e. loop device -> other fs -> > > other device would work ? > > This is not recommended. Please use kernel_open/read/write/close from > inside kernel. The standard fs functions are context bounded. I call them through the kerinfo structure passed as parameter to the xdd init function, via the dos_tab array, isn't it the same ? If not, how can I access the kernel_* functions from a xdd ? -- Patrice Mandin WWW: http://membres.lycos.fr/pmandin/ Programmeur Linux, Atari Spécialité: Développement, jeux