On Fri, 12 May 2000, Roman V. Shaposhnick wrote:
> Of course it would be valuable to have someone doing all general work.
> And of course there are some places that need generalization ( directory
> caching comes to mind), but my point was to show that if all in-kernel
> filesystems could coexist happily with recent infrastructure changes
> than most likely all problems are in particular fs code not in infrastructure
> itself.
Darn. Read through the symlink code, OK? Real rule is
"if you are a method of regular file's address_space you can expect correct
struct file *". Otherwise - nope.
Said that, if NWFS is using something that resembles normal RPC then
NFS-like scheme may be a decent way to go. "read to kernel space from fake
file" is almost never the right thing to do - look at the UMSDOS code for
some examples, just make sure to do that before eating. Remember that
anecdote about dying punk and Maskowyj Laj?
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