Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 21:45:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zipfs filesystem anyone ? Message-ID: <199710232145.OAA07834@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199710231935.NAA16573@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 23, 97 01:35:27 pm
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> > 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.
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