Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:29:48 -0500 | From | Chip Salzenberg <> | Subject | Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd) |
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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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