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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] long long whining
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:21:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874rj43aiq.fsf@becket.becket.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020325104126.5692B19995@mail.cse.psu.edu>

forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk writes:

> you could use their vnode switch--possibly called something else but
> i haven't got the old documentation here--to convert file system
> operations to messages in much the same way as the 8th edition file
> system switch, although the latter was simpler.  (the RFS changes
> were something else again.)  NFS wasn't completely useful because
> the close wasn't transmitted.

BSD doesn't *have* messages.  Eventualy, you end up implementing Mach
2 when you add them.

The vnode switch is purely *internal* to the kernel, which is the
point of that paragraph.

Thomas


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-25 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-25 10:37 forsyth
2002-03-25 11:53 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-03-25 16:21 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-25 18:00 forsyth
2002-03-26  9:45 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-22 19:02 presotto
2002-03-22 20:25 ` Dan Cross
2002-03-21 19:07 anothy
2002-03-21 19:38 ` James A. Robinson
2002-03-22 10:21   ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-22 13:42     ` Boyd Roberts
2002-03-25  9:57       ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-21 17:58 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-03-21 18:46 ` skipt
2002-03-21 18:48   ` Mike Haertel
2002-03-21  6:19 David Gordon Hogan
2002-03-21 17:08 ` Dan Cross
2002-03-22 10:21 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-22 18:37   ` Dan Cross

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