Re: first thread

[Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@execpc.com>]

> - Network-Transparent Devices
>   Im- and exporting /dev-files via network (char & block),
>   e.g. exporting /dev/hdb1 from one machine and importing
>   it as a real block device on another machine

The big sticking point here is ioctl - what do you do about it?  If the
ioctl number was defined with the _IO*() macros you can at least guess
what to do, but that has its limits.

There has been some discussion of migrating to a smart ioctl that
would provide this information explicitly with the call.

-Mitch
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