[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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