From: Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:26:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46537C27.4050200@cs.columbia.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HqZPd-0008Dh-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Why do we want this?
> --------------------
>
> That depends on who you ask. My answer is this:
>
> 'foo.tar.gz/foo/bar' or
> 'foo.tar.gz/contents/foo/bar'
>
> or something similar.
>
> Others might suggest accessing streams, resource forks or extended
> attributes through such an interface. However this patch only deals
> with the non-directory case, so directories would be excluded from
> that interface.
here's a possibly stupid question. What about symlinks to dirs? namely
the shells tend to treat them differently if postfixed with a slash or not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-22 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 18:48 [RFC PATCH] file as directory Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-22 22:10 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 6:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 7:03 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 7:19 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 7:36 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 8:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 8:29 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 9:03 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 9:58 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 10:14 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 9:16 ` Jan Blunck
2007-05-23 9:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 12:34 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-05-23 12:40 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 9:21 ` Jan Blunck
2007-05-23 9:35 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-24 12:07 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-28 14:43 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-22 23:26 ` Shaya Potter [this message]
2007-05-23 6:39 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 9:51 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 10:09 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 10:24 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 10:24 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 10:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 11:39 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 12:16 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 13:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 13:51 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 14:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 15:06 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 15:25 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 15:37 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 15:55 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-05-23 13:23 ` Ph. Marek
2007-05-23 13:54 ` Al Viro
2007-05-23 12:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-23 13:20 ` Jaroslav Sykora
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