Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: file as a directory | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:31:29 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Peter Foldiak <Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> said: > On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:51, Horst von Brand wrote: > > > I was suggesting this idea mainly form XML files, where the tags define > > > the parts clearly.
> > Use a XML parsing library then.
> But namespace unification is important,
Why? Directories are directories, files are files, file contents is file contents. Mixing them up is a bad idea. Sure, you could build a filesystem of sorts (perhaps more in the vein of persistent programming, or even data base systems) where there simply is no distinction (because there are no differences to show), but that is something different.
> and to unify the namespace, you > have to use the same syntax. I guess you disagree with me on that. (If > not, how would you do it?)
I'd go one level up: Eliminate the distinctions that bother you, not try to patch over them. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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