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From: G. David Butler gdb@dbS...
Subject: [9fans] Lightweight stat(2)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:57:05 -0600

Still on the path of the righteous, [see the past
discussion about create(2)], I want to propose an addition
to stat(2) to allow direct access to walk(5).

I propose:

int qstat(char *name, QID *eqid)

This will translate to:

clone(5)
walk(5) [saving the value of QID]
clunk(5)

This allows user level access to walk(5).  How else can a
userspace file server pass walk(5) calls to another 9P server?

Comments?

David Butler
gdb@dbS...