Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 May 2007 19:26:31 -0400 | From | Shaya Potter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory |
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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. - 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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