Abstract: A stimulation and treatment device includes an elongate vessel that is closed at a distal end and that defines a vacuum chamber, the vessel including an air extraction passage in fluid communication with the vacuum chamber so that a pump can be connected to the vessel to extract air from the chamber via the air extraction passage. A penile passage member is arranged on a proximal end of the vessel, the penile passage member defining a penile passage through which a penis can extend into the vacuum chamber, the passage member being configured to engage a penis in a substantially sealed manner. An internal slider is arranged on an inner surface of the vessel and is configured for sliding reciprocally within the vessel, the internal slider defining an opening through which the penis can extend and being configured to make contact with the penis to stimulate the penis during reciprocal movement of the internal slider.

Abstract: A method of manufacture of an insulated structural panel which includes the step of feeding and laminating of a pair of outer skins (13, 14) and a core of insulating material (8) interposed therebetween through a press bed (7) to facilitate adhesion of an adhesive to internal surfaces of each outer skin (13, 14) and thus facilitate bonding of the core of insulating material (8) to each adjacent internal surface of each outer skin (13, 14) wherein each outer skin (13, 14) has an outer surface which is gripped by a conveyor (26, 27) having a continuous working surface in contact with each of said outer surfaces (13, 14) characterised in that said continuous working surface is formed by a coating (40, 40A, 40B) of elastomer or other synthetic polymer applied to a metal substrate. There is also provided a laminating machine (10) for use in the method as well as a track plate (37) for use in the laminating machine (10).

Abstract: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for implementing a file directory in a server. An application including a buffer for retrieving and storing at least one entry is interfaced with the file directory. Utilizing a determined average filename length, an estimate of a number of entries among the collection of entries that can be stored by the buffer is determined. In response to determining at least one attribute data field has been requested, the number of entries that can be stored by the buffer is recalculated. Recalculating the number of entries includes determining an amount of data required for storing the collection of filenames, a collection of fixed-length attribute data fields, and a collection of variable-length attribute data fields. The recalculated number of entries is then requested from the file directory, and the buffer is loaded, with the recalculated number of entries.

Abstract: A file system boundary emulation system emulates a virtual boundary of a filesystem within an existing file system for data management at a fileset granularity, within the framework of a wide area filesystem federation. The system dynamically assigns a fileset ID to the file that belongs to that fileset. The system comprises a fileset defined by the virtual boundary of the file. The virtual boundary is less than and contained within the file system. The fileset identifies the file via the file ID and the fileset ID. The system maps the file ID to the fileset ID. The filesets are dynamically created and removed based on administrative instructions. Filesets are used for fine grained data management and namespace control in a filesystem federation.

Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer usable code to manage data requests in a file system. A file access request is received from a client data processing system for a file access operation on a file in the file system. A determination is made as to whether the entry is present for the client in response to receiving the file access request. An open request is sent to the file system to open the file in response to the entry being absent. A cookie is received from the file system in response to sending the open request. An entry is created for the client and file with the cookie, and the file access request is sent to the file system using the cookie. Subsequent file access requests are sent to the file system using the same cookie in response to the entry being present.

Abstract: The techniques of the present invention involve constructing and caching a chain of FIDs that represent the directory path to a system resource. Typically a lookupname( ) service returns a handle to the object and a handle to the object's owning directory. The owning directory handle can then be used to obtain a file identifier (FID) for the owning directory. This FID constitutes the first FID in the chain and will also act as the lookup key in the cache. The process next finds the directory's parent. A FID is obtained with the parent handle. This FID is added to the chain. The process repeats until the root of the system's file tree is reached. This result is a chain or array of FIDs representing the full path name of the directory containing the accessed object. The chain begins with the directory FID closest to the accessed object and ends with the FID representing the root of the file tree. Once constructed, the FID chain which forms a binary representation of a directory path name is placed in a cache.

Abstract: A technique for providing an accurate view of an exported file system structure. An in-memory filesystem is maintained as a combination of separate filesystems, each corresponding to a physical file system on the server. Directories in the in-memory, or pseudo, filesystems are also coupled with an existing directory in the physical filesystems on the server which is exporting the file system(s) or portions thereof. This allows the server to present a filesystem tree to a client which includes the files explicitly exported by a system administrator, and also maintain the device and attributes information of each file regardless of it being an actual file in the physical filesystem or a node in the in-memory pseudo filesystem. Clients can thus view the exported filesystem tree as a collection of filesystems. For each filesystem seen by the client, each file/directory will depict the same set of attributes and operations as are available on the exporting server.

Abstract: System, method and computer program product for supporting a plurality of Access Control List types for a file system in an operating system in a data processing system. An Access Control List supporting system for managing access to a file system in a data processing system has at least one file system in an operating system of the data processing system, and an Access Control List management framework in the operating system and external to the at least one file system for managing access to the at least one file system. The Access Control List supporting system of the invention removes ACL management and access check-related functions from the at least one file system to an external Access Control List management framework, thus enabling an operating system to support a plurality of Access Control List types using the same Access Control List management framework and enabling new Access Control List types to be added to the operating system dynamically while the operating system is running.

Abstract: A method for transparently navigating through exported file system namespaces on a server using a single mount. When an exported file system is mounted onto a client, the client creates a file system ID structure for the exported file system, wherein the file system ID structure is populated with unique properties of the exported file system, and wherein the unique properties include a file system ID. The client also creates an internal virtual file system structure for the exported file system ID structure, wherein the internal virtual file system structure includes a virtual file system ID. Once the file system and virtual file system structures are created, the client links the file system objects created within the mount to the file system ID structure until a user moves from one exported file system to a second exported file system and a new file system ID is detected.