On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :
> :Look into the portal filesystem. This is what you want :)
> :
> : Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___
> : gr...@freebsd.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \
>
> 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
> <dil...@backplane.com>
>
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