Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | 23 Jun 1999 13:14:00 -0000 | From | leitner@converge ... | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, Stallman, and |
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In local.linux-kernel, you wrote: > Yes, good question. I have answers. :-)
Great, and thanks for providing them!
> The answer involves something a bit like Hurd translators. Microsoft > calls them "reparse points". It also involves a shared library, called > a DLL in the Windows environment. [lost of explanation snipped]
How does that differ from OS-provided marshalling? Why would the OS do this? Do me this looks like something the CORBA persistance service should do for you, not the OS.
I can see a whole slew of security problems having kernel drivers do user-space conversions.
Felix
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