Since I have not really made any journal entries, I believe I should go ahead and describe what my current project is. At this point, I am working on repairing FreeBSD's fdesc file system.

What is fdesc? Fdesc is a file system which basically gives you information in file system form about what files (i.e. sockets, pipes, etc.) you have open. Since devfs likely won't be available for a while, I decided I'd make this something to work on. Currently the FS data such as the date, owner and permissions in fdesc ``as-is'' is set inaccurately (or to zero).

Currently, FreeBSD uses a directory, /dev/fd, which is basically full of a bunch of device nodes that really tell you absolutely nothing about your open files. However, with what magic I'm working with at this point:

$ ls -l /dev/fd 3>/dev/tcp/10.0.0.2/21 | tee /dev/null
total 0
crw-------  1 chris  tty      5,   3 Mar 29 06:14 0
prw-rw-rw-  1 chris  chris         0 Mar 29 06:14 1
crw-------  1 chris  tty      5,   3 Mar 29 06:14 2
srw-rw-rw-  1 chris  chris         0 Mar 29 06:14 3
dr--r--r--  2 root   wheel       512 Mar 27 06:03 4
dr--r--r--  2 root   wheel       512 Mar 27 06:03 5

Note: The /dev/tcp/addr/port-no is a feature of the Korn shell and is in no way related to my fdesc work (other than being an awfully convenient way to make a socket in the shell).