On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:51:27AM -0500, Pisupati, Ajay wrote: > > Ethan, > Sorry for not getting in touch for so long (I wasn't kidnapped by > aliens like poor andy!). I have been going through the kernel VFS code a > little bit and I know how to approach some of the issues like keeping track > of open files, path walking etc. For the most part, I was thinking that > what you wanted to achieve was like a subset of the kernel. so, the > construction can be quite similar, albeit much more condensed. Many of the > structures that I was going to use(and some functions) would be based on the > kernel's. However, this would mean that whatever license you choose for > this project has to be GPL compatible. It's probably premature because not the licence is GPLv2 or later version, which is incompatible with the linux kernel's GPLv2 only. > one line of code has been written yet, but I wanted to get a confirmation > from you that it will be so. I know it's your project, so you have the > final say. > Please let me know. Arcady (seen in #debianppc) has done quite a bit of work on this already, i haven't seen where he is at yet though, perhaps you would want to check with him. he has recently been too busy with university stuff to complete the last bits. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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