Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:49:09 -0400 (EDT) | From | <> | Subject | Re: A few questions..... |
| |
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Jan-Simon Pendry wrote: > Stephen Frost wrote: > > Eh, 'users' MIGHT like it better. Not a good enough reason > > to go mucking about in every place 'open' gets implemented to watch > > for 'http://' at the beginning of a file, esp since a file with that > > name COULD technically exist... MAYBE /net/http://somesite/index.html > > i implemented a general purpose namespace hook in 4.4 bsd > called the portal filesystem. you can hang anything you like > on the end of it, including HTTP GET, FTP PUT etc. i guess > you really want > > open("/url/type://some/uri") > > and have the url daemon attached to "/url". (please don't limit > this to just http.) >
This sounds like a better way to do it....Now I just need to figure out how to implement it ;)
Aaron
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |