Messages in this thread | | | From | Jonathan Barker <> | Subject | Re: VFS mediator? | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:28:22 +0000 |
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Dear All
On Thursday 14 Mar 2002 2:52 pm, I wrote:
> In brief: a kernel module which "exported" VFS requests to a (specified) > user-space daemon would be useful. My particular application is a daemon > which generates files on the fly - I would like to expose this as part of > the filesystem. Ideally, the kernel module would deal with generation of > fake inode numbers etc and the user-space daemon would simply be asked to > create a pipe corresponding to a "filename" and (possibly) supply a > directory tree.
Many thanks for all your useful suggestions. I'll look at them all and (when I get time) compile a digest of answers. I'm particularly amused by the very groovy perlfs (thanks to David Golden for pointing me towards it).
Jonathan
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