Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 15:51:59 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Passing information from kernel to user (was: UDF, userfs) Message-ID: <20000123155159.B1272@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20000122131942.D391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>; from grog@lemis.com on Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 01:19:42PM %2B0800 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001211012020.28236-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000121184917.66083B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20000122131942.D391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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On Saturday, 22 January 2000 at 13:19:42 +0800, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 21 January 2000 at 18:54:15 -0500, Robert Watson wrote: >> Both the Arla and Coda file systems are distributed file systems >> managed from userland processes. They do this by providing loadable >> kernel modules (or static compiled in code) to allow userland >> processes to listen on a device file (/dev/xfsX for Arla, /dev/codaX >> for Coda) and receive "upcalls" from the kernel. > > This is an interesting concept. One of the ideas I have on a back > burner (well, at least I haven't forgotten about it :-) is a Samba > issue. The way the SMB protocol works, it's possible that a remote > workstation will send a message to the owner of Oops, sorry, don't know how this one escaped. I'll describe the issue in more detail later when I have time. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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