From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 23 14:46:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA29941 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.5.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA29933 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:46:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA14604; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:46:00 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd014599; Thu Oct 23 14:45:56 1997 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07834; Thu, 23 Oct 1997 14:45:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710232145.OAA07834@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: zipfs filesystem anyone ? To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 21:45:46 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710231935.NAA16573@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 23, 97 01:35:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The VFS interface is not reflexive. > > Forgive me, but does that mean that the interface doesn't jerk when you > hit it in the knee? *grin* No, it's a term from computer science, not medicine. It means that there are side effects to the interface, and that the caller is dependent on the side effects. It's very difficult to proxy a side effect across a procedural only interface (like corssing the user/kernel boundry). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.