From owner-freebsd-fs Wed May 3 7:46:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from bg.sics.se (bg.sics.se [193.10.66.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C51937BB36; Wed, 3 May 2000 07:46:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bg@bg.sics.se) Received: (from bg@localhost) by bg.sics.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA47583; Wed, 3 May 2000 16:47:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bg) To: Robert Watson Cc: Adrian Chadd , Bjoern Groenvall , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A proposal : IFS References: From: Bjoern Groenvall Date: 03 May 2000 16:47:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: Robert Watson's message of Wed, 3 May 2000 10:12:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.52/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Robert Watson 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 -- _ _ ,_______________. Bjorn Gronvall (Björn Grönvall) /_______________/| Swedish Institute of Computer Science | || PO Box 1263, S-164 29 Kista, Sweden | Schroedingers || Email: bg@sics.se, Phone +46 -8 633 15 25 | Cat |/ Cellular +46 -70 768 06 35, Fax +46 -8 751 72 30 `---------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message