Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:58:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Harry Newton <harry_newton@telinco.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: status of portalfs Message-ID: <3D17DC4E.F802447E@mindspring.com> References: <86adpkih9j.fsf@basilisk.locus> <3D179464.4538513D@mindspring.com> <200206242233.g5OMXHl8000378@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Actually Terry is wrong here :-) Sorry Terry. The portal filesystem > is not really a filesystem. All it can do is intercept open()s and > return descriptors. It isn't like NULLFS. The portal filesystem > does not do any layering at all. open() does not return a portalfs > descriptor. > > What portalfs does is connect to a unix domain socket (aka a userland > process) and then it expects a control message to sent to it with > a descriptor (like to a normal file or a TCP socket or whatever). It > then returns the descriptor directly. You're right. The code is all different here from what it was originally. Originally, you were supposed to be able to treat a program as a file, and not have to do the socket passing around. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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