[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] sharing userspace IB objects

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Jul 10 11:29:38 PDT 2007


 > That one is actually not very different from sysfs:
 > there just seems to be a set of pre-defined files.

I thought there was a special system call to create stuff or
something.  Anyway I haven't looked in a long time.

 > The special nature of your suggested filesystem would be
 > that we actually let users create files there,
 > but then files need to disappear when the last user
 > closes the file.

Yes, that's true.  Phrased that way it does seem tricky.



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