Open by inode? (was Re: knfsd)

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Sat, 2 Jan 1999 12:29:48 -0500

According to Alan Cox:
> NFS likes to work at the inode level and its awkward to get at that
> [from user space]. If you could open by inode with some other stuff
> from the kernel hooked and write a clone based UNFSD then probably
> [knfsd would be unnecessary].

Is there any reason why the superuser shouldn't be able to open by
inode? This seems an obvious idea; perhaps there's also an obvious
argument against it that I'm not seeing...

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Chip Salzenberg      - a.k.a. -      <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "When do you work?"   "Whenever I'm not busy."


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