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Vol: 4(4) No: 1 / March 1994 Proposed Structure for an ACTP System for UNIX Kai-Mikaiel Jaa-Aro Interaction and Presentation Laboratory, Depertment of Numeical Analysis and Computing Science, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden, e-mail: kai@nada.kth.se Assar Westerlund Interaction and Presentation Laboratory, Depertment of Numeical Analysis and Computing Science, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden Keywords: ACTP, UNIX, files systems Abstract We describe ongoing work on a mechanism for incorporating active files, i. e. files whose contents are computed dynamically, in a UNIX file system. The main advantage of our method is that it does not require any reconfiguration of the kernel, but instead uses the existing Network File System and Remote Procedure Call facilities. References [1] Brian N. Bershad and C. Brian Pinkerton. Watchdogs: Extending the UNIX file system. In USENIX Winter Conference, pages 267-275, February 1988. [2] Paul R. Eggert and D. Scott Parker. File systems in user space. In USENIX Winter Conference, pages 229-240, January 1993. [3] Berkeley Software Distribution BSD UNIX 4.4 [4] V. Cate Alex-a global filesystems. In Proceding . Usenix File Systems Workshop, pages 1-11, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, May 1992. [5] S. Kleiman. An architectures for multiple file system types in Sun UNIX. In Summer 1986 Usenix Conference Procedings, Atlanta, USA, 1986. [6] R. Sandberg, D. Goldberg, S. Kleiman, D. Wlash, and B. Lyon. Design and implementation of the Sun Network File System. In Summer 1985 Usenix Conference Proceedings, Portland, USA, 1985. [7] J. G. Steiner, B. Clifford Neuman, and J. I. Schiller. Kerberos: An authentication service for open network systems. In Winter 1988 USENIX Conference Preceedings, pages 191-202, Dallas Texas, USA, February 1988. [8] Sun Mycrosistems, Inc. Network Programming Guide, 1990. |