Hello folks, here's the first version of my "srvfs" implementation - a synthentic filesystem which allows a process to "publish" an open file descriptor into the file system, so other processes can continue from there, with whatever state the fd is already in. This is a concept from Plan9. The main purpose is allowing applications "dialing" some connection, do initial handshakes (eg. authentication) and then publish the connection to other applications, that now can now make use of the already dialed connection. I'm currently developing it out-of-tree - will convert it to patches, once it reached a stable state. https://github.com/metux/linux-srvfs-oot Some quick background pointers on how it works on Plan9: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/exportfs https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man3/dial.html have fun, -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@xxxxxxxxx -- +49-151-27565287
