On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:

> >- implement a real userland fs layer that can cope with lseek(2) (and isn't
> >  a hack layer over the NFS protocol as in sharity-light);
>
> 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.

Take care,

Bill