From owner-freebsd-fs Sat Apr 14 3:39: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-21.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D0337B422 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 03:39:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B9B0B66B3C; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 03:38:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 03:38:54 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Boris Popov , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/pseudofs pseudofs.c pseudofs.h pseudofs_fileno.c pseudofs_internal.h pseudofs_vncache.c pseudofs_vnops.c Message-ID: <20010414033854.A43982@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 03:38:51PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 03:38:51PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Boris Popov writes: > > On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Log: > > > Let pseudofs into the warmth of the FreeBSD CVS repo. > > Good work. However, it is possible to make pfs_get_fileno() and > > pfs_free_fileno() functions available as separate (from pseudofs) entity > > with ability to be attached to mount point ? Many fs'es need their own > > inode number generator and having generic one would be nice. >=20 > Actually, a generic (not vfs-specific) "unique numeric ID allocator" > would be useful for many applications, including PID and TCP port > allocation. But right now I'd rather concentrate on getting pseudofs > done and {,lin}procfs converted. I don't know about that; they have different cryptographic properties, and using a "generic ID allocator" without careful thought is the path to ruin. Kris --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE62Ci9Wry0BWjoQKURAtFOAJ9l/na7A0hcSvgbX7xR/ED8ybtvWQCeNZBN NjGwqWa+Ge7MSv27O0718Nc= =piZN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message