On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:47:05PM -0400, Marc Ramirez wrote: > +> I have a remote datastore that I want to present as a filesystem. There > +> are two parts to this: fetching raw data over the network, and doing some > +> processing on the data. For purposes of maintainability, I'd like to do > +> as little of this as possible inside the kernel, so I've currently got a > +> daemon to fetch and process the data, and then pipes it over a socket to > +> the kernel FS layer. > > Your choices are: > - device, > - sysctl, > - syscall. > > You need to think about what you exactly need and which options will be > the best. Creating new syscall isn't good idea, creating device is more > complicated than sysctl, but of course it's up to you and your needs.
Okay, thanks. Syscall seems completely counter-intuitive for my needs, anyway. Marc. -- Marc Ramirez Blue Circle Software Corporation 513-688-1070 (main) 513-382-1270 (direct) www.bluecirclesoft.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"