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Alex Belits wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
> 
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> 3. Pluggable directory generator -- a userspace process can tell the
> system to make an object that looks exactly like a directory, except that
> its contents are provided by the process, that is being queried when the
> directory is accessed.

That sounds like ClearCase's dynamically generated views of directories
and files.

Daniel
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