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Re: NFSD status.



> The problem with this is that there are apparently some ioctls to configure
> network interface which are not implemented.  I would give you more detail,
> but I am not at that machine, and I haven't looked at the error messages
> in a couple of weeks.  I will look at it later on.

Ah, ok.  That is probably just one of the known issues.  Most likely all it
wants to do is get the set of interfaces and their addresses.  

> Of course, though it may seem hard to believe, my main interest is in writing
> documentation.  This coding work is my current way of understanding enough
> of the system structure to be able to write it up.  I think I've learned
> a lot about how file systems are implemented, and I can start filling in the
> Reference Manual about them.  The ntp4 daemon is more of an exercize in
> understanding now communication with the Mach kernel works, since I will
> be looking at ioctls.

:-)  Well, keep learning!  Next you will find out that the kernel has
nothing whatsoever to do with ioctls.


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