Re: [PATCH v4 09/11] 9p: darwin: Implement compatibility for mknodat

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Greg Kurz (groug@kaod.org) wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 11:30:18 +0100
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 7/2/22 09:47, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > > On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 20:10:23 -0500
> > > Will Cohen <wwcohen@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> This patch set currently places it in 9p-util only because 9p is the only
> > >> place where this issue seems to have come up so far and we were wary of
> > >> editing files too far afield, but I have no attachment to its specific
> > >> location!
> > >>
> > > 
> > > Inline comments are preferred on qemu-devel. Please don't top post !
> > > This complicates the review a lot.
> > > 
> > > This is indeed a good candidate for osdep. This being said, unless there's
> > > some other user in the QEMU code base, it is acceptable to leave it under
> > > 9pfs.
> > 
> > virtiofsd could eventually use it.
> 
> 
> Indeed but virtiofsd is for linux hosts only AFAICT and I'm not aware of any
> work to support any other host OS.
> 
> Cc'ing virtio-fs people for inputs on this topic.

Indeeed, there's a lot of Linux specific code in the virtiofsd - I know
people are interested in other platforms, but I'm not sure that's the
right starting point.

Dave

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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK