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SubjectOpen by inode? (was Re: knfsd)
According to Alan Cox:
> NFS likes to work at the inode level and its awkward to get at that
> [from user space]. If you could open by inode with some other stuff
> from the kernel hooked and write a clone based UNFSD then probably
> [knfsd would be unnecessary].

Is there any reason why the superuser shouldn't be able to open by
inode? This seems an obvious idea; perhaps there's also an obvious
argument against it that I'm not seeing...
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@perlsupport.com>
"When do you work?" "Whenever I'm not busy."

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