From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11237 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2003 08:08:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11230 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2003 08:08:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hermes.chez-thomas.org) (63.225.98.241) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 2003 08:08:53 -0000 Received: by hermes.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 48) id 094AC50E0F1; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 01:08:52 -0700 (MST) Received: from 62.166.230.82 (SquirrelMail authenticated user gdt) by www.chez-thomas.org with HTTP; Sat, 1 Nov 2003 01:08:51 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <1251.62.166.230.82.1067674131.squirrel@www.chez-thomas.org> In-Reply-To: <20031031203213.GG19411@ohno.mrbill.net> References: <20031031203213.GG19411@ohno.mrbill.net> Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:08:00 -0000 From: "Gary Thomas" To: "Joshua Boyd" Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [ECOS] ecos file system interface to FIS X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 Joshua Boyd said: > I was just wondering why there wasn't a file system interface > (i.e. supporting calls like fopen, fwrite, fread, and fclose) to FIS. > I've been scanning the sources and the mailing list archive, and it > appears that the only place FIS is touched is in redboot, and I'm > wondering why only there, before I write an ecos application that > handles FIS directly. I guess that this just hadn't occurred to anyone :-) Before you write your application that uses FIS directly (first, don't forget that there are RedBoot virtual vector interfaces already for this), perhaps you might consider writing the file system wrapper(*) instead? (*) which, of course, we'd like to see contributed to the codebase. > > P.S. Please don't say just use JFFS2. It is quite heavily overkill for > my needs. > > -- > Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://sources.redhat.com/fom/ecos > and search the list archive: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss > > -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://sources.redhat.com/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss