On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 07:37:26PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Yes, Marco Gerards suggested that we could print the PID of the active > translator. But I still have my doubts about this. But yeah, active > translators should be handled in a similar way I think.
You can do what fsysopts for active translators (it looks like the output of showtrans). The process id is usually available in the f_fsid field of the statvfs structure (the Hurd has fsid in stat, too, I think). There is no guarantee that it is a PID (the requirement is that it is a system-wide unique identifier for the filesystem, so that fsid+inode is a system-wide unique identifier for a file), but in the Hurd the convention is to use the PID of the active translator (which is unique, and not reused soon, so it is a nice fit for this purpose). So if you want to do something like that, show the f_fsid, not the pid. That is a POSIX thing. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
