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On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:47:05PM -0400, Marc Ramirez wrote:
> +> I have a remote datastore that I want to present as a filesystem.  There
> +> are two parts to this: fetching raw data over the network, and doing some
> +> processing on the data.  For purposes of maintainability, I'd like to do
> +> as little of this as possible inside the kernel, so I've currently got a
> +> daemon to fetch and process the data, and then pipes it over a socket to
> +> the kernel FS layer.
>
> Your choices are:
> - device,
> - sysctl,
> - syscall.
>
> You need to think about what you exactly need and which options will be
> the best. Creating new syscall isn't good idea, creating device is more
> complicated than sysctl, but of course it's up to you and your needs.

Okay, thanks.  Syscall seems completely counter-intuitive for my needs,
anyway.

Marc.

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