Subject: Re: kern/1176: config file does not offer description for PORTAL
To: None <kstailey@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/01/1995 13:27:26 
   -options                PORTAL          # ?
   +options                PORTAL          # create sockets with open(2)

That's really not what portal fs does.  The portal daemon can create
any arbitrary file descriptor (perhaps even a pipe from another
program) and pass it back.