[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] sharing userspace IB objects
    Michael S. Tsirkin 
    mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
       
    Tue Jul 10 11:37:05 PDT 2007
    
    
  
>  > 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.
OK, so how about the idea to just pass in *any* fd, and just
create a mapping between an inode and src domain (or other shared object),
by means of a radix tree or something like this.
We can then use the mapping to check permissions when new
processes want to attach to an existing object.
Hmm?
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MST
    
    
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