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Implementing NFS

From: dgd at list.imaginary.com (Felix A. Croes)
Date: Wed Jan 28 10:36:04 2004
Subject: [DGD] Alternatives to the Kernel model of security...

Josh Dady wrote:
>[...]
> If your requirements include editing from the shell account with the 
> only difference being that the MUD's "/" isn't the shell's "/", then 
> your only real options are to write a DGD extension to make use of the 
> filesystem's meta-data (I'm including file permissions here) or to 
> build a DGD WebDAV server and use an OS that can mount a WebDAV URL as 
> a regular disk.

Another option would be to use Zell's implementation of an NFS server
in LPC:

    ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/lpmud/drivers/dgd/lpc/nfs.tgz

but that requires the networking package.  Still, it's an illustration
of how easy it would be to implement WebDAV in LPC.

Regards,
Dworkin