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From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
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"Daniel B." <dsb@smart.net> writes:

> Alex Belits wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote:
> > 
> ...
> > 
> > 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.

Or hurd's translators.

Phil.