On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > : > :Look into the portal filesystem. This is what you want :) > : > : Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ > : [email protected] _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ > > 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. > > But something similar to what the portal filesystem does would be > cool -- maybe a real protocol to pass the VOP requests down to a > user process and get responses & data. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <[email protected]> > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ [email protected] _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
