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File-system requests supported in user space for enhanced efficiency

  • US 9,455,914 B2
  • Filed: 05/12/2014
  • Issued: 09/27/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for handling file-system requests comprising:

  • an application residing in user space of a computing system, the computing system comprising processing logic and memory;

    a file system residing in the user space of the computing system; and

    a customizing-interface module also residing in the user space and operable to provide a messaging service, within the user space, between the application and the file system, the messaging service supporting a file-system request from the application to the file system, the file-system request providing a non-standard system call, with functionality beyond options offered by a System Call Interface (SCI), newly customized to more efficiently meet requirements of the application, the messaging service made customizable by bypassing the SCI of kernel space pertaining to the computing system.

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