From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266465AbUH1WLu (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:11:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266463AbUH1WLt (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:11:49 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:62607 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266362AbUH1WLj (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Aug 2004 18:11:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4131031A.7090403@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 15:11:38 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alexander G. M. Smith" CC: Will Dyson , akpm@osdl.org, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: Separating Indexing and Searching (was silent semantic changes with reiser4) References: <584702172685-BeMail@cr593174-a> In-Reply-To: <584702172685-BeMail@cr593174-a> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alexander G. M. Smith wrote: > > >However, one of my (unfinished) experiments was to have magic directories that show query results as their contents. One attribute of the directory (or even its name) would be the query string. That way even old software (like "ls") could use queries! Implementing queries-as-directories might require moving some things back into the kernel, or at least into some plug-in level. > > Beautiful example of the sort of thing that I don't want to be locked out from doing by having the parser in user space.