Re: A few questions.....

Matthew Gabeler-Lee (androsyn@i95.com)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:24:08 -0400 (EDT)

Well after doing a bit of thinking on the topic of a portal fs, and I
recall somebody mentioning a sockfs. Would there be any interest in
implementing the entire socket namespace symbolicly in a virtual
filesytem?

Say to connect to port 25 of some host

/sockets/outgoing/ip/tcp/raw/10.0.0.1/25/

Or if you wanted it to do the higher level protocol handling like http or
ftp.

/sockets/outgoing/ip/tcp/http/10.0.0.1/80/someremotefile

and

/sockets/outgoing/ip/tcp/http/10.0.0.1/21/someremotefile

As for the binding something like
/sockets/incoming/ip/tcp/inaddr-any/25

Then if say the admin of the system only wanted user foo to be able to
bind to a socket you could do something like

chown foo /sockets/incoming/ip/tcp/inaddr-any/80

Then if people really wanted to they could do away with the BSD socket()
API(evil grin ;) Not that anybody ever would but.....

Any thoughts???

Aaron

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