On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
> : > Which leads back around the circle to the misconception about what portalfs
> : > is:  it's a portal to existing filesystems, not a filesystem of its own.
> :
> : Huh?
>
> Sorry, "it's a portal to existing file descriptor sources...."
>
> Typically, a real filesystem works at the vnode layer, and thus can provide
> such services as seek, etc.

True. I had jumped a head a little to the interface where it would talk
with a daemon (which AFAIK means a pipe or (maybe someday) pty). :-)

Take care,

Bill