Re: Xorg bug returns: Too many files open in system

[Sergey Bugaev]

On Sun, Nov 7, 2021 at 6:27 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
> libnetfs does not this way, see libnetfs/dir-lookup.c, it'll first look
> for self/, then for the rest, directory by directory.

I know — that's one of my major gripes with libnetfs. Resolving paths
component-by-component is _really not_ what you want for a network
file system. That's terrible for latency, and moreover, the
intermediary paths might not even 'exist' for something like httpfs
(https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/ is a thing,
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/ is not).

You can get around that by redefining netfs_S_dir_lookup (); but then
you lose most of the point of using netfs. I ended up doing that for
my (unpublished) attempt at implementing a 9P translator anyway.

Sergey