Re: [uml-user] UML as a hosting system

[Lars Marowsky-B. <lm...@su...>]

On 2001-06-07T14:35:24,
   Jeff Dike <jd...@ka...> said:

> > Oh, thats not what I meant. I don't want UML to skip bounds checking,
> > I just want it to notice when the bounds change. 
> Hmmm, what mechanism would you use to tell it to recheck its bounds?
> 
> That's sort of like a physical disk changing its size underneath a native 
> kernel.

Via an ioctl on the blockdevice? There already is one to reread the partition
table (BLKRRPART), I think that might be well suited.

Or -HUP'ing UML from the outside, but that ain't nice ;-)

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lm...@su...>

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