How to best overload the fileops ?

[John Baldwin]

On Friday, August 23, 2013 4:36:05 pm Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 13:06 -0700, Yuri wrote:
> > On 08/23/2013 10:02, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > There is something similar: see devfs_ops_f in 
sys/fs/devfs/devfs_vnops.c.
> > 
> > devfs_ops_f is a local static fileops object for devfs. I don't see how 
> > is this similar to our situation. devfs doesn't overload any other file 
> > system, they are a file system on their own.
> > 
> 
> I think the point is that devfs_ops_f provides several devfs-specific
> methods and then "inherits" the rest by referencing the standard
> vn_whatever functions.  Since John recommended that you expose the
> fo_whatever methods, I think he's suggesting you build your ops table by
> providing your own close method and fill in the rest of the table with
> the now-exposed kqueue ops methods.
> 
> It's not as neat and clean as "class epollops : public kqueueops {...}"
> but it's probably not as bad as using clever macros to try to turn C
> into a sort of C++Lite.

Correct.  Just use something like:

static struct fileops epollops = {
	.fo_read = kqueue_read,
	...
	.fo_close = epoll_close,
	...
}

-- 
John Baldwin