Re: file as a directory

[Hans Reiser]

Peter Foldiak wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 17:24, Hans Reiser wrote:
>  
>
> > Peter, I think you are right, though it might be useful to have the 
> > default be dirname/..../glued and to allow users to link 
> > dirname/..../filebody to 
> > dirname/..../something_else_if_they_want_it_to_not_be_glued, and to have 
> > dirname/..../filebody or whatever it is linked to be what they get if 
> > they read the directory as a file.
> >    
>
> Yes. I assume you mean that dirname in itself should always be
> interpreted as dirname/..../glued, which by default would be a linked to
> dirname/..../filebody, the latter being the file content, right?
>  
reversed:

dirname in itself should always be
interpreted as dirname/..../filebody, which by default would be a linked to
dirname/..../glued, 

> Also, a pseudofile (e.g. dirname/..../structure ?) could be used to
> specify how the files should be glued together. A simple question is,
> for instance, what separators to use between the components, and what
> ordering to use when putting the component objects together. (This
> pseudofile could also determine more complicated ways of composing
> objects.) 
>  
Could be cool.

> The component objects themselves could be full objects, so they
> themselves could have sub-components.
> Peter
>
>
>
>  

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