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Re: [PATCH] get_translator_info wip


From: Richard Braun
Subject: Re: [PATCH] get_translator_info wip
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 17:44:32 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 11:41:51AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Mmm. It indeed looks odd to store the path at lookup.
> 
> Concerning storing the path, it's a bit sad to have to do that, and
> it'll become wrong if one moves the mount points.  Another way would
> be to make the client figure it out by itself from a port to the mount
> point, much like glibc/sysdeps/mach/hurd/getcwd.c. It'll be slower, but
> should be safer.  The RPC would thus return an array of ports to the
> mount points instead of an array of strings.
> 
> Anybody else?

Looks better indeed.

-- 
Richard Braun



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