Fwd: handle special file type in tmpfs

Howard Su howard0su at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 21:07:40 UTC 2007


On 4/17/07, Eric Anderson <anderson at freebsd.org> wrote:
> I'm not certain of all the answers to your questions, but I can say that
> I think FIFO & SOCKET are the most important ones.
>
I agree. I grep the source and try to figure out what is minimized
part to support them in fs-dependent code. Only FFS/UFS, NULL_FS and
ISO/UDF reference VFIFO. NULL_FS, NWFS and ISO/UDF reference VSOCK. I
am not sure if there is some generic implementation in VFS already.

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-Howard


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