[PATCH 2/7] Introduce target_fileio_set_fs
Pedro Alves
palves@redhat.com
Fri Apr 17 14:21:00 GMT 2015
On 04/17/2015 02:36 PM, Gary Benson wrote:
> It was basically because the alternative was to add a parameter to
> target_filesystem_is_local and target_fileio_{open,readlink,unlink}
> (and all their target vector implementations) to pass around whatever
> inferior you were talking about. You'd also have to make a lot more
> changes to the remote protocol: either vFile:{open,unlink,readlink}
> would need an extra argument (indicated with qSupported) or you'd need
> new "fs" versions of each packet. Both Pedro and I thought that was
> ugly.
Right, this way mirrors what's done at the posix/system call level too,
and if some other systems needs something different for selecting
a "filesystem namespace", there's a single method/packet to change.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves
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