[Tfug] [tfug] Announcing runfs

[Keith Smith]

Not sure how I would use something like this as a LAMP developer.

Your gizmo seems really cool.  How would one use it?


On 2014-10-27 21:36, Jude Nelson wrote:
> Thanks!  I just wrote up a short blurb and example on it here, if
> you're
> interested: http://judecnelson.blogspot.com/2014/10/runfs-self-cleaning-ram-filesystem.html
> [4]
> 
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Keith Smith
> <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
> 
>> Cool & Congrats!!
>> 
>> On 2014-10-27 15:22, Jude Nelson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey everyone,
>>> 
>>> In case anyone's interested, I've created an in-RAM filesystem
>>> called
>>> runfs for storing temporary files (similar to what /run is used
>>> for).  The key difference is that once the process that creates
>>> the
>>> files dies, runfs automatically removes them.  You don't have to
>>> worry about old PID files and sockets getting left around.
>>> 
>>> The source code is here:  https://github.com/jcnelson/runfs [1]
>>> [1]
>>> 
>>> It's built with a filesystem SDK I also wrote, called fskit. 
>>> It's
>>> code is here:  https://github.com/jcnelson/fskit [2] [2]
>>> 
>>> Building and installing is super-simple:  just make and make
>>> install.
>>> 
>>> Any/all feedback welcome :)
>>> 
>>> -Jude
>>> 
>>> PS  This is the first of a few filesystems I intend to create. 
>>> Another one I'm working on will replace udev, and unlike udev, it
>>> will
>>> filter inodes based on the process that's asking and change their
>>> permissions.  This will let e.g. the X server access /dev/dri
>>> and
>>> /dev/event/* without root or setuid, and will block all other
>>> programs
>>> from accessing them.
>>> 
>>> Links:
>>> ------
>>> [1] https://github.com/jcnelson/runfs [1]
>>> [2] https://github.com/jcnelson/fskit [2]
>>> 
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>> --
>> Keith Smith
>> 
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> 
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] https://github.com/jcnelson/runfs
> [2] https://github.com/jcnelson/fskit
> [3] http://www.tfug.org/mailman/listinfo/tfug_tfug.org
> [4]
> http://judecnelson.blogspot.com/2014/10/runfs-self-cleaning-ram-filesystem.html
> 
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Keith Smith