The Design and Implementation of the Anykernel and Rump Kernels

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UKFS(3) NetBSD Library Functions Manual UKFS(3)
NAME
ukfs -- user kernel file system library interface
LIBRARY
ukfs Library (libukfs, -lukfs)
SYNOPSIS
#include
DESCRIPTION
The ukfs library provides direct access to file systems without having to
specially mount a file system. Therefore, accessing a file system
through ukfs requires no special kernel support apart from standard POSIX
functionality. As ukfs is built upon rump(3), all kernel file systems
which are supported by rump are available. It allows to write utilities
for accessing file systems without having to duplicate file system internals
knowledge already present in kernel file system drivers.
ukfs provides a high-level pathname based interface for accessing file
systems. If a lower level interface it desired, rump(3) should be used
directly. However, much like system calls, the interfaces of ukfs, are
self-contained and require no tracking and release of resources. The
only exception is the file system handle struct ukfs which should be
released after use.
INITIALIZATION
int
ukfs_init()
int
ukfs_modload(const char *fname)
NetBSD 5.99.48 November 22, 2009 NetBSD 5.99.48