Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 May 2007 14:01:24 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory |
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On May 22 2007 20:48, 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.
Stole reiser4 an idea. These semantics are quite fragile. Until now, chdir is only possible for directories (otherwise, -ENOTDIR), and opening a directory without O_DIRECTORY gives -EISDIR. You can't just change semantics.
That said, with FUSE, something like this should already be possible, should not it?
And looking at your example of foo.tar.gz/foo/bar,the tar.gz needs to be read at least once to get at foo/bar.
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