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From: Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: file as a directory
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:11:34 +0000
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To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: Christian Mayrhuber <christian.mayrhuber@gmx.net>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Horst von Brand wrote:

>... or just people groping in /etc/passwd wanting to find the whole
>entry (not just one field),
>
the whole entry for joe would be
/etc/passwd/joe

> or perhaps look at the 15th character of the
>entry for John Doe.
>  
>
something like
/etc/passwd[fullname = "John Doe"]/character[15]
? what is so mad about that?  Peter