[Linux-cluster] Interfacing csnap to cluster stack

[Daniel McNeil]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 13:02, Lon Hohberger wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 12:34 -0700, Daniel McNeil wrote:
> 
> > These ioctls are ugly.  Shouldn't there be a library interface for
> > getting this info?  We all agreed there should be an API for
> > membership and quorum.  There should be an API for both the
> > kernel and user-land.  csnap should NOT use ioctls.
> 
> Fortunately, those "ioctls" aren't part of the csnap code; they're part
> of plugin code used by magma to talk to CMAN.
> 
> The plugins implement libmagma's actual communication with different
> cluster infrastructures, which is [ugly] ioctls in the case of CMAN and
> libgulm's API in the case of GuLM.
> 
> -- Lon

Yes, I know that csnap does not use the ioctl's, but Daniel said:
"Maybe csnap will end up talking to it the same way, who knows.  I just
always feel like I got something icky on myself when I call an ioctl."
I was just agreeing that the ioctls are ugly and  csnap should not
use the ioctls directly.

Why doesn't cman have a libcman?

Daniel