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MOUNT_PORTALFS(8)       FreeBSD System Manager's Manual      MOUNT_PORTALFS(8)

NAME
     mount_portalfs - mount the portal daemon

SYNOPSIS
     mount_portalfs [-o options] /etc/portal.conf mount_point

DESCRIPTION
     The mount_portalfs utility attaches an instance of the portal daemon to
     the global file system namespace.  The conventional mount point is /p.
     This command is normally executed by mount(8) at boot time.

     The options are as follows:

     -o      Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma
             separated string of options.  See the mount(8) man page for
             possible options and their meanings.

     The portal daemon provides an open service.  Objects opened under the
     portal mount point are dynamically created by the portal daemon according
     to rules specified in the named configuration file.  Using this mechanism
     allows descriptors such as sockets to be made available in the file
     system namespace.

     The portal daemon works by being passed the full pathname of the object
     being opened.  The daemon creates an appropriate descriptor according to
     the rules in the configuration file, and then passes the descriptor back
     to the calling process as the result of the open system call.

NAMESPACE
     By convention, the portal daemon divides the namespace into sub-
     namespaces, each of which handles objects of a particular type.

     The following sub-namespaces are currently implemented: fs, pipe, tcp,
     and tcplisten.

     The fs namespace opens the named file, starting back at the root
     directory.  This can be used to provide a controlled escape path from a
     chrooted environment.

     The pipe namespace executes the named command, starting back at the root
     directory.  The command's arguments can be provided after the command's
     name, by separating them with spaces or tabs.  Files opened for reading
     in the pipe namespace will receive their input from the command's
     standard output; files opened for writing will send the data of write
     operations to the command's standard input.

     The tcp namespace takes a slash separated hostname and a port and creates
     an open TCP/IP connection.

     The tcplisten namespace takes a slash separated hostname and port and
     creates a TCP/IP socket bound to the given hostname-port pair.  The
     hostname may be specified as "ANY" to allow any other host to connect to
     the socket.  A port number of 0 will dynamically allocate a port, this
     can be discovered by calling getsockname(2) with the returned file
     descriptor.  Privileged ports can only be bound to by the super-user.

CONFIGURATION FILE
     The configuration file contains a list of rules.  Each rule takes one
     line and consists of two or more whitespace separated fields.  A hash
     (``#'') character causes the remainder of a line to be ignored.  Blank
     lines are ignored.

     The first field is a pathname prefix to match against the requested
     pathname.  If a match is found, the second field tells the daemon what
     type of object to create.  Subsequent fields are passed to the creation
     function.

     # @(#)portal.conf       5.1 (Berkeley) 7/13/92
     tcplisten/      tcplisten tcplisten/
     tcp/            tcp tcp/
     fs/             file fs/
     pipe/           pipe pipe/

FILES
     /p/*

EXAMPLES
     Display the greeting of the FreeBSD SMTP server.

           head -1 /p/tcp/mx1.freebsd.org/smtp

     Implement a (single-threaded) echo server:

           while :
           do
               (exec 3<>/p/tcplisten/ANY/echo && cat -u <&3 >&3)
           done

     Gather data from two sources.  Verify that two remote files are
     identical:

           diff -q '/p/pipe/usr/bin/fetch -o - \
                   ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT' \
               '/p/pipe/usr/bin/fetch -o - \
                   ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/README.TXT'

     Scatter data to two sinks.  Record a remote CD ISO image and calculate
     its checksum:

           fetch -o - ftp://ftp5.freebsd.org/.../disc.iso |
           tee '/p/pipe/usr/local/bin/cdrecord -' |
           md5

     Create an XML view of the password file:

           ln -s '/p/pipe/usr/local/bin/passwd2xml /etc/passwd' \
               /etc/passwd.xml"

SEE ALSO
     mount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8)

     W. Richard Stevens and Jan-Simon Pendry, "Portals in 4.4BSD", USENIX 1995
     Technical Conference Proceedings, Peter Honeyman, Berkeley, CA.

CAVEATS
     This file system may not be NFS-exported.

HISTORY
     The mount_portalfs utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.

FreeBSD 11.0-PRERELEASE         March 11, 2005         FreeBSD 11.0-PRERELEASE
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | NAMESPACE | CONFIGURATION FILE | FILES | EXAMPLES | SEE ALSO | CAVEATS | HISTORY

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