Re: USFS (User Space File System)

[Matthew Dillon]

:> :
:> : Brian Fundakowski Feldman      _ __ ___ ____  ___ ___ ___  
:> : [EMAIL PROTECTED]                   _ __ ___ | _ ) __|   \ 
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:>     Actually, it isn't quite.  All the portal filesystem will allow you
:>     to do is pass back a descriptor.  It does not allow you to simulate
:>     a filesystem.
:
:Maybe I didn't read the original e-mail that well. But with descriptors,
:can't you fork off individual handlers for each fd? Make a user-land FS
:that way? I never investigated it, except noticing the neat things it does
:with the portal daemon.
:...
: Brian Fundakowski Feldman      _ __ ___ ____  ___ ___ ___  

    No, you can't.  All you can do is return a file descriptor.  It can be
    a pipe, of course, but that's still nowhere near what you need to
    simulate a filesystem.

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
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