On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :
> :Look into the portal filesystem. This is what you want :)
> :
> : Brian Fundakowski Feldman      _ __ ___ ____  ___ ___ ___  
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> 
>     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]>
> 

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