From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Plugins: Pseudo-fun.
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:32:27 -0800
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To: Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk>
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Peter Foldiak wrote:

>On Thursday 10 November 2005 17:16, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>
>>>cat /home/peter/book
>>>
>>>instead of
>>>
>>>cat /home/peter/book/..../childcat
>>>      
>>>
>>yes, but the creator of book should define that book/default is linked
>>to ..../childcat, and should be able to make it something else if he
>>chooses.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, it should be possible to make it something else. But perhaps if all you 
>want is simple concatenation, that could be automatic (unless something else 
>is specified).
>  
>
it should be the default default, yes....

>(And should it be book/..../default, after all, isn't this typical metadata?)
>
>What is the best way to specify such an object "constructor"?
>(Should it be just a script? But that wouldn't work in the kernel, right?)
> PF
>
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