Jon Arney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another good idea. Forgive my simple-minded-ness, but a simple > approach to the problem might be for filesystems to voluntarily > register themselves by simply writing to /etc/mtab as a real > file. Is this a job that really needs a translator to do? > Writing an RPC to a translator is similar to simply opening /etc/mtab > (except of course, for the root which might require special > consideration).
If the protocol says that a client of /etc/mtab should keeps its port open as long as it lives, an mtab translator can cleanup automatically when the filesystem goes away, even if the filesystem was killed brutally with kill -9. And you can also put all needed syncronization in the mtab translator; otherwise, clients would need to somehow lock the file for exclusive access in order to delete a line in the middle of it. So even if a translator is not strictly needed, I think it would halp making the mechanism both robust and simple to use. /Niels _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
