Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh, and people should look at treefs for whatever that's worth. I'm not
> sure anyone around knows exactly what Miles's design plans were in that.
> To my knowledge it's never been used for anything. But it's obviously related.
treefs is supposed to
Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I would encourage thought about just where netfs is inadequate (more
> > broadly than this one issue) and think about a new library that works
> > well for it--and for other localish things that aren't really netfs's
> > area of expertise.
>
> netfs
Oh, and people should look at treefs for whatever that's worth. I'm not
sure anyone around knows exactly what Miles's design plans were in that.
To my knowledge it's never been used for anything. But it's obviously related.
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> I would encourage thought about just where netfs is inadequate (more
> broadly than this one issue) and think about a new library that works
> well for it--and for other localish things that aren't really netfs's
> area of expertise.
netfs doesn't do a lot. a similar library addressing its ina
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> how am I supposed to get the openmodes in netfs callbacks like
> netfs_attempt_read?
To echo Roland's comments, and call for something new:
netfs is being stretched *way* beyond its intentions here. I would
much rather see a *new* library, paralle
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> how am I supposed to get the openmodes in netfs callbacks like
> netfs_attempt_read?
>
> This is critical to implement O_NONBLOCK behaviour correctly.
> But the interface is giving me user->user and user->po->np,
> but I need user->po->openmodes.
N
> how am I supposed to get the openmodes in netfs callbacks like
> netfs_attempt_read?
You're not. The callback interface just isn't designed to work at that
level. netfs was intended for filesystems that work like disk filesystems
in their assumptions, like NFS. It would be reasonable to chan
Hi,
how am I supposed to get the openmodes in netfs callbacks like
netfs_attempt_read?
This is critical to implement O_NONBLOCK behaviour correctly.
But the interface is giving me user->user and user->po->np,
but I need user->po->openmodes.
Shall I override the RPC stub, or should we fix the in
