Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:04:17 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: A few questions..... |
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Jan Jirmasek wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 androsyn@i95.com wrote: > > > I am considering writing a new feature for Linux. Basically it would > > allow you to open arbitrary URLs with the open() call. Something like > > open("http://somehost/~somepage/foo.tar.gz", O_RDONLY) > > or > > open("ftp://somehome/foo.tar.gz", O_RDONLY) > > > Wouldn't be a cleaner way to use standard open() call on a kind of > httpfs, ftpfs? > > And yes, in my opinion, httpfs, ftpfs and others could be a good examples > of user-space filesystem implementations.
As a filesystem I could see it possibly going into the kernel, and have something like '/http/somehost/something.tar.gz'. That seems to make some amount of sense to me, and be cleaner than hacking up things to watch for 'http://' at the beginning of something...
Stephen
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