Re: [PATCH 10/17] hurd: add fsys_get_children

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:13:52 +0200,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> Neal H. Walfield, le Mon 15 Jul 2013 11:34:38 +0200, a écrit :
> > > > So, let's think about the
> > > > fsck problem.  What we need is a registry.  I propose an mtab
> > > > translator.  Translators register with it when they start and register
> > > > a call back.
> > > 
> > > Where do they register? Is this yet another well-known translator,
> > > outside of the filesystem? Having it distributed seems much more
> > > elegant.
> > 
> > /servers/mtab and $USER/server/mtab.
> 
> How does / register itself?

Perhaps have an RPC that the mtab server can use to cause a file
system to register itself.  When it starts, it send the RPC to well
known locations that probably started before it.  They then register.

Neal