Re: Shared-Memory for the Hurd?

[Neal H Walfield]

> libtreefs was what I had in mind for the "fullsized" shm-translator.
> About libdiskfs, I'm not sure yet (read: I must read more sources yet).
> Basically, I don't need a filesystem-backend (say ext2, ufs, ...),
> just a tree (directory) structure to hold, say /servers/shm/0,
> /servers/shm/1, ... libdiskfs would be useful for a memory-based
> filesystem, which is not exactly what I have in mind. But again
> I'll have to read more about libdiskfs before.

I had the same thing in mind for each: libtreefs for the memory
based implementation and libdiskfs for your disk based implementation.
I do not think that libdiskfs would fit a memory based implementation at
all.

> Now I must first figure out how to use libtreefs/libdiskfs by
> writing a translator with dummy callbacks. If I get there, the
> rest will be much more easier.

It's always easier when you know how ;)

Best regards,
-Neal

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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or neal@cs.uml.edu