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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:19:42 +0800
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Passing information from kernel to user (was: UDF, userfs)
Message-ID:  <20000122131942.D391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000121184917.66083B-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from robert@cyrus.watson.org on Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 06:54:15PM -0500
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001211012020.28236-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000121184917.66083B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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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 


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