> > I have seen the ftpfs that is really a nice idea and something which > > people in *nix world can't even think of.
In fact, we had this kind of thing in all BSD kernels starting with 4.4BSD Lite (read: in FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD). It's called 'portal' filesystem: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_portal&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.4-stable&format=html 'ftpfs' is in fact a fairly common application of the portal fs. > I believe they can include it as a new filesystem in the kernel. Probably. The nice thing about /portal is that the attached processes run in user-land. No need to write yet another kernel module for this ;-) Portal-FS is probably the closest analogy of a Hurd translator in the Unix world. -Farid. -- Farid Hajji -- Unix Systems and Network Admin | Phone: +49-2131-67-555 Broicherdorfstr. 83, D-41564 Kaarst, Germany | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - - - - One OS To Rule Them All And In The Darkness Bind Them... --Bill Gates.
