Re: file as a directory

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Peter Foldiak wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 17:24, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>Peter, I think you are right, though it might be useful to have the 
>>default be dirname/..../glued and to allow users to link 
>>dirname/..../filebody to 
>>dirname/..../something_else_if_they_want_it_to_not_be_glued, and to have 
>>dirname/..../filebody or whatever it is linked to be what they get if 
>>they read the directory as a file.
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>Yes. I assume you mean that dirname in itself should always be
>interpreted as dirname/..../glued, which by default would be a linked to
>dirname/..../filebody, the latter being the file content, right?
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reversed:

dirname in itself should always be
interpreted as dirname/..../filebody, which by default would be a linked to
dirname/..../glued, 

>Also, a pseudofile (e.g. dirname/..../structure ?) could be used to
>specify how the files should be glued together. A simple question is,
>for instance, what separators to use between the components, and what
>ordering to use when putting the component objects together. (This
>pseudofile could also determine more complicated ways of composing
>objects.) 
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Could be cool.

>The component objects themselves could be full objects, so they
>themselves could have sub-components.
> Peter
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