From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 30 9:22:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from roaming.cacheboy.net (roaming.cacheboy.net [203.56.168.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4F037B4EC for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:22:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from adrian@localhost) by roaming.cacheboy.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0TB2WP23667; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:02:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from adrian) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:02:27 +0100 From: Adrian Chadd To: Brian Somers Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cloned open support Message-ID: <20010129120227.A23655@roaming.cacheboy.net> References: <200101291052.f0TAqVK58112@storm.FreeBSD.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101291052.f0TAqVK58112@storm.FreeBSD.org.uk>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:52:31AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 29, 2001, Brian Somers wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering having a crack at adding support for cloned opens. > Before I start, I guess I've got two questions: > > 1. Is anybody else doing this. I'm not, but I'd like this to also be able to percolate through VFS. This way, synthetic filesystems such as procfs can attach temporary state per file, keeping things "consistent" between reads. (which does not happen right now.) Just to keep in mind, adrian -- Adrian Chadd "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you have to support for a lifetime." -- rec.humor.funny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message