Can you give concise answers to these questions?
1. What facility does your new RPC interface provide
over using the normal filesystem interfaces with
some convention of fixed-length file names for shm keys?
2. What functionality does your shmfs provide over a normal filesystem?
When pro
> It has occured to me: should suid binaries on a user mounted file system
> be run as the owner of the filesystem?
Yes, probably. Moreover, what it means to get the auth port for running a
setuid binary should be the very same thing it means to get the auth port
for running a translator.
I thi
> If we want to do as you suggest and only destroy a node when the there is
> no active translator, we must add a user reference when an active
> translator is started and drop one when the control port dies. This
> implies asking for dead name notification on active translator control
> ports an
> Well, we have to do something, otherwise, when diskfs_drop_node is
> called, will trigger an assert.
>
> Consider the following: when diskfs_drop_node is called, if there is
> space allocated, it adds a reference and attempts to truncate the file
> to zero and happens to sets np->allocsize to
I put this in. Thanks.
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> I was wondering about host_get_boot_info and if it could be used to provide
> /proc/cmdline in Neals procfs. I don't know about any standard interface to
> get a kernel command line.
I don't recall ever having noticed the host_get_boot_info interface.
That certainly seems like a natural thing
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