I thought now would be a good time to chime in on some of my wild schemes...
The reason I am interested in 'userfs' is to enable me to write a version of 'nsd'. Those of you familiar with Irix will recognize it. For others, what it does is to present the name-space on a machine as filespace. The advantages of this is that we can greatly simplify out libc to use the file/namespace that nsd provides. For example 'getpwent()' now becomes file accesses to /ns/.local/passwd/NAME. Another advantage that this abstraction provides is that it allows transparent alterations of the databases in use, even to the extent of NOT having to restart each client that may be using a specific database. -- David Cross | email: cro...@cs.rpi.edu Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860 Department of Computer Science | Fax: 518.276.4033 I speak only for myself. | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
