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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.

  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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