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diff --git a/hurd/virtual_file_system.mdwn b/hurd/virtual_file_system.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index b62a5e4c..00000000 --- a/hurd/virtual_file_system.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -Path names are resolved using a distributed protocol. -No single entity is responsible for the resolution of -path names. A file system server (a [[translator]]) -attaches to translators (`fs.defs:file_set_translator`). - -When a process resolves an absolute path, it queries -its root file system server by invoking the `fs.defs:dir_lookup` -method in the capability in its root directory slot. The -file system server resolves as much as it knows about locally -and when it encounters a translator, it replies to the client -indicating how much it resolved and where to continue its -lookup. This continues until the name is fully resolved -or an error occurs. The same happens for relative path -names but a different capability is used. - -For a more detailed explanation of the protocol, look at the section -2.2 of the [[critique]]. |