NetFS: Networking through the File System
Joshua Train, Joseph D. Touch, Lars Eggert, Yushun Wang · 2003
NetFS provides a platform-independent file system interface to the network stack of operating systems. It unifies and integrates different existing APIs that each control parts of the network stack. NetFS offers a common, familiar interface that supports both existing functionality, as well as new capabilities for finegrained access control, user-based virtual views, and remote access. A subset of NetFS was implemented using Perl and named pipes. The system is currently being implemented as FreeBSD 5.0 kernel extension. 1