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Date: Sun,  3 Jul 2005 23:48:21 +0200
From: Gorka guardiola <paurea@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] afid and fd, mapping from user space
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I was just thinking about the more general problem of converting a fid
to a fd and/or backwards
so I could do read and write and let the kernel do the 9P chat for me.
Maybe other programs could benefit from it. The idea comes from the
fact that fauth does the work, but there is no way to recover the fid
after to use it in the attach, which is frustrating.

I am doing the proxy by hand now (still working on it) anyway.

On 7/3/05, Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com> wrote:
> The right solution is to proxy between factotum and the fids manually.
> Auth_proxy was intended to be simple, not a black box.
>