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Date:      03 May 2000 16:47:14 +0200
From:      Bjoern Groenvall <bg@sics.se>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Bjoern Groenvall <bg@sics.se>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A proposal : IFS
Message-ID:  <wubt2n1yj1.fsf@bg.sics.se>
In-Reply-To: Robert Watson's message of Wed, 3 May 2000 10:12:34 -0400 (EDT)
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000503100436.28689A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> writes:

> My recollection also is that the fh* calls don't give you a way to
> allocate new file handles, only convert an existing name into a file
> handle.

You are right about that, ITC had an icreat system call and you will
have to add a corresponding file system specific VOP_FHCREATE to be
able to add anonymous files. It will also be necessary to teach
programs e.g fsck about these anonymous files.

/Björn

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