Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:28:39 +0200 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dynamic filetypes. please comment. Message-ID: <20000628102839.H58428@zoe.bastard.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200006270941.CAA00986@john.baldwin.cx>; from jhb@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:41:28AM -0700 References: <20000626142428.A275@fw.wintelcom.net> <200006270941.CAA00986@john.baldwin.cx>
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On Tue, Jun 27, 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > 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(). Hrm. Can you go into a little more detail for us non-USENIXians? Adrian -- Adrian Chadd Build a man a fire, and he's warm for the <adrian@FreeBSD.org> rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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