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Re: Stateless SFTP server and READDIR race condition.



> Just because NFS is typically implemented in kernel-land doesn't mean
> you can't have one in user-land.  In fact, I think there may one or
> two user-land NFSv4 implementations out there...

Back in the '80s, I wrote an NFS server that largely runs in user-land.
(Not v4, of course, not back then.)  It's not totally userland; it has
a handful of syscalls to help do things by inumber instead of path -
but they're not essential, merely helpful.  I could have kept track of
paths instead.

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