In message <20051109142437.GB21541@drowsy.duskware.de>, Martin Husemann writes:
>On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 09:21:57AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> Given that they won't be fixing anything, we need to make our
>> emulation work.
>
>As long as it's optional and won't slow down native work (like the mount_nfs
>switch) that's fine with me. I won't call it "fixing" though, because we
>can't fix it, realy.
>

What, precisely, is the problem?  What is there about tmpfs that a 
application can detect?

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb