From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Jan 22 22: 7:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C55C150ED for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 22:06:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (j39.klt31.jaring.my [161.142.169.233]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA11616; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 16:35:55 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA00466; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:19:43 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:19:42 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Robert Watson Cc: Brian Beattie , fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Passing information from kernel to user (was: UDF, userfs) Message-ID: <20000122131942.D391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from robert@cyrus.watson.org on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 06:54:15PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 21 January 2000 at 18:54:15 -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > Both the Arla and Coda file systems are distributed file systems > managed from userland processes. They do this by providing loadable > kernel modules (or static compiled in code) to allow userland > processes to listen on a device file (/dev/xfsX for Arla, /dev/codaX > for Coda) and receive "upcalls" from the kernel. This is an interesting concept. One of the ideas I have on a back burner (well, at least I haven't forgotten about it :-) is a Samba issue. The way the SMB protocol works, it's possible that a remote workstation will send a message to the owner of -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message