[Dazuko-devel] Dazuko Injector?

[John Ogness]

Hi,

I have been approached by IBM about Dazuko being able to support 
non-kernel file access. I think this could be very useful because it 
would mean that Dazuko could be used for database accesses or for other 
userland applications, such as a direct Samba plugin.

Here is my idea for an implementation:

A daemon, which can register itself as an "event injector". Rather than 
being responsible for controlling file accesses, this daemon will inject 
access event into Dazuko and get a response if the event is ok. This 
would allow any userland process to utilize Dazuko daemons without 
having to be concerned about the daemons themselves.

At first, an injector daemon would only be able to inject events that 
specify files on the filesystem. In the future this could possibly be 
expanded to support streams, so that no files are ever written to the 
hard drive (ie. database objects could be streamed directly to the 
various Dazuko daemons). This would be much further off, but I want to 
get the idea out on the table.

Any thoughts?

John Ogness

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