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- From: Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au>
- Subject: Adding extra width to the filesystem interface
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 11:15:31 -17634834 (DST)
-
- Greetings people, and apologies if I am resurrecting a dead thread here.
- (speaking of which, is anyone archiving this list, and if so, can
- I steal a copy of it?)
-
- Some time ago, a friend and I started work on an ethernet interface unit
- for the ST, as much as a learning experience as anything else. Since
- then, it's come along slowly, and developed into a somewhat more diverse
- device, however it's roots as a SCSI/ACSI <--> ethernet adapter remain.
- (cause the first)
-
- Slightly more recently, the australian public access network association
- finally got their collective act together and started a nationwide
- SLIP network.
- (cause the second)
-
- X likes to run on the berkley socket interface.
- (cause the third)
-
- For a while now I've been working on a neat and portable way of adding a
- set of Berkley-compatible socket calls to MiNT - possibly drawing heavily
- on the net-2 code ( it is a little elaborate in some places, but I can
- certainly vouch for its effectiveness ).
-
- The obvious way to do this is via the loadable filesystem interface,
- unfortunately there is no pleasant way to map the rather large number
- of calls that actually need to be handled by the kernel onto that semantic.
- ( Especially as the kernel likes to preprocess quite a few of them before
- the filesystem finds out )
-
- I'm reasonably certain that this issue, or something similar must have been
- discussed before - so what conclusions, if any, were reached?
-
- --
- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey #
- # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' #
- # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental #
- # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #
-