Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:41:28 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: dynamic filetypes. please comment. Message-ID: <200006270941.CAA00986@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20000626142428.A275@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On 26-Jun-00 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > In order to have a kld add a new filetype (DTYPE_VNODE, DTYPE_PIPE, > etc.) it needs to generate a unique number. Ummm, what happened to fixing the kernel code to not need a type but to add the appropriate vfsops as Peter suggested during the BSDi hospitality thingie at Usenix? That solution avoids the need for filetypes at all and provides the cleaner solution. IIRC, the primary offender was sendfile(). -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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