On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 01:09:30PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > 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. Yeah, but... Linux open() always gets a new struct file instance; how do you work around that? Some variant of ->atomic_open() API change? Details, please.
