Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Actually Terry is wrong here :-) Sorry Terry. The portal filesystem > is not really a filesystem. All it can do is intercept open()s and > return descriptors. It isn't like NULLFS. The portal filesystem > does not do any layering at all. open() does not return a portalfs > descriptor. > > What portalfs does is connect to a unix domain socket (aka a userland > process) and then it expects a control message to sent to it with > a descriptor (like to a normal file or a TCP socket or whatever). It > then returns the descriptor directly.
You're right. The code is all different here from what it was originally. Originally, you were supposed to be able to treat a program as a file, and not have to do the socket passing around. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
