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Hello and good day, I'm a graduate student in the University of the Philippines, and I'm interested in using coda to test different caching methods in a wireless environment. To make this simpler, I was thinking of using coda's hoard command to dynamically adjust the priorities of the files in the internal hoard database according to changes in a turbulent wireless environment. I plan to write a daemon that takes note of the files a coda client requests from a coda mount. This daemon will dynamically compute the file's priority and add/modify it in the hdb based on the following attributes: -strength of the client's connection to the server it resides in, -the size of the file -mime type of file -previous access frequency of the file. I'm currently stuck in outputting the names of the files requested by the client to my daemon. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but according to what I read in the kernel-venus interaction documents, I assume that I have to write my code in the upcalls that make use of inputArgs structures like cfs_open, cfs_link and maybe cfs_readdir. I initially thought that i could somehow obtain the filename using the Vicefid structure that is used in those inputArgs structures. In any case however the documentation I downloaded seems outdated because it seems Vicefid isn't used in inputArgs structures anymore but rather CodaFid is. Also, there are new structures that weren't part of the documentation. My question is, how do I find out the full names (including paths) of the files that are requested by the client in processes (like copying, reading, etc) that may require caching? I need this so I could use the hoard command to manipulate their proriies. I know this seems inefficient, but it's the easiest way to test my caching weights. I would really appreciate any given help, and I hope that this won't be too much of a bother. I'm thinking that if 'struct CodaFid Fid' represents the file descriptor, I could fstat() the value and work my way from there. Thank you and Good day. -Paul Patrick Carpio PrantillaReceived on 2003-09-09 00:41:54