Hi,

As I was looking for a way to turn ethfoo(4) into some sort of
clonable device, I saw the "dupfd hack", which is more or less
what I want.  If I understand correctly, I have to fill
curlwp->l_dupfd with a complete file descriptor that will be
re-opened by sys_open().

The drawback of this is that it doesn't simply makes a character
device clonable, as I have to provide a fileops structure.  There
are two ways of doing that: providing my own (as systrace and
dmover do), or using vnops (as ptmx does).  The former introduces
a lot of complexity, the latter requires the correct device nodes
to exist in the file-system.

Is my analysis correct?  Is there a simpler way to acheive what
I want to do (which, in case it's not clear, is to have a ethfoo
device that creates an interface for each open)?

-- 
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Susannah's Song, The Dark Tower VI, Stephen King, 2004.