Re: passing plist dictionaries to syscalls

[Elad Efrat <elad%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Christoph Badura wrote:

> I have experimental code using a syscall that takes a proplib object as
> argument.
>
> Usage from userland is like:
>
> if (prop_dictionary_pack_pref(obj, &pref) != 0)
>         adios("can't create plistref");
> if (mysyscall(&pref) == -1)
>         adios("nysyscall");

I believe my code does a similar thing, only that the object packing
into a plistref is done inside the proplib code and you just pass the
dictionaries to the syscall (actually, to the library call, and it
takes care of everything else).

-e.