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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:07:39 -0700
From:      "Howard Su" <howard0su@gmail.com>
To:        fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Fwd: handle special file type in tmpfs
Message-ID:  <f126fae00704171407h7b88c015hde8fa3d75cba2996@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/17/07, Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I'm not certain of all the answers to your questions, but I can say that
> I think FIFO & SOCKET are the most important ones.
>
I agree. I grep the source and try to figure out what is minimized
part to support them in fs-dependent code. Only FFS/UFS, NULL_FS and
ISO/UDF reference VFIFO. NULL_FS, NWFS and ISO/UDF reference VSOCK. I
am not sure if there is some generic implementation in VFS already.

--
-Howard



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