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 -- 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
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