:> :
:> : 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.
:...
: Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___
No, you can't. All you can do is return a file descriptor. It can be
a pipe, of course, but that's still nowhere near what you need to
simulate a filesystem.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dil...@backplane.com>
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