From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 23 15:11:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA01611 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 15:11:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA01604 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 15:11:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA12560; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:11:29 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA17154; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:11:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:11:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199710232211.QAA17154@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zipfs filesystem anyone ? In-Reply-To: <199710232145.OAA07834@usr05.primenet.com> References: <199710231935.NAA16573@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199710232145.OAA07834@usr05.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > The VFS interface is not reflexive. > > > > Forgive me, but does that mean that the interface doesn't jerk when you > > hit it in the knee? *grin* > > No, it's a term from computer science, not medicine. Never heard it in any of my classes. > It means that there are side effects to the interface, and that the > caller is dependent on the side effects. Kind of like strdup(3)? *grin* Nate