From owner-freebsd-fs Sun Apr 8 6:39: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D03F37B423 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 06:39:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA81091; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 15:38:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Boris Popov Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/pseudofs pseudofs.c pseudofs.h pseudofs_fileno.c pseudofs_internal.h pseudofs_vncache.c pseudofs_vnops.c References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 08 Apr 2001 15:38:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: Boris Popov's message of "Sun, 8 Apr 2001 19:06:48 +0700 (ALMST)" Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Boris Popov writes: > On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Log: > > Let pseudofs into the warmth of the FreeBSD CVS repo. > Good work. However, it is possible to make pfs_get_fileno() and > pfs_free_fileno() functions available as separate (from pseudofs) entity > with ability to be attached to mount point ? Many fs'es need their own > inode number generator and having generic one would be nice. Actually, a generic (not vfs-specific) "unique numeric ID allocator" would be useful for many applications, including PID and TCP port allocation. But right now I'd rather concentrate on getting pseudofs done and {,lin}procfs converted. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message