Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:44:15 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern vfs_syscalls.c Message-ID: <81627.1059464655@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jul 2003 03:34:13 EDT." <20030729033236.X14210-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>
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In message <20030729033236.X14210-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>, Jeff Roberson wr ites: >> >> Log: >> >> Pass the file descriptor index down to vn_open. >> > >> >Why? Was this discussed on arch? >> >> So that things like /dev/stream /dev/fd/* and similar can use a >> less gruesome hack than today, and so that access to devices from >> userland doesn't have to take the long tour through vnodes. >> > >Yes, I see, but this is a pretty horrific layering violation. I think we >should think of the right way to do this instead of doing another gruesome >hack. I fear that this is going to snowball out. I still think it looks a lot better than td_dupfd. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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