On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Bill Studenmund wrote:

: > i, for one, have always wondered why the portal file system didn't
: > hand back descriptors that could handle a seek.  that seems (to me, at
: > least) like a better thing to "fix".
: >
: > or maybe i'm just on crack again...  :)
:
: The problem is that we don't have an fd-based interface (pipes, ptys, etc)
: which will communicate a seek to a program on the other side. So there is
: nothing that portalfs can ship back that will work.

Which leads back around the circle to the misconception about what portalfs
is:  it's a portal to existing filesystems, not a filesystem of its own.

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