Re: Stateless SFTP server and READDIR race condition.

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 02:54:38PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > 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.

A client wouldn't need anything special...