Re: creating live virtual files by concatenation

[Yoanis Gil Delgado]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> > Now let us say I am creating sort of a virtual text file (code.js)
> > that is a live-concatenation of these files:
> > # concatenate tooltip.js banner.js foo.js code.js
> >
> > Note I am not talking about the cat(1) utility. I am thinking of
> > code.js be always a live concatenated version of these three, so when
> > I modify one file, the live-version is also modified.
> >
> > What puprose I might have? Network-related. Say, I have an HTML file
> > that includes these three files in its code.
> >
> >    
> Try FUSE.
>  
Yes that's the best solution. Email me if you have a question about how 
to accomplish this. Here at
our school we have created a fuse filesystem that "glues" files in a 
single one.

>  
>
> > If I had a live-concatenated file, I could reference it in the HTML file
> > so that the browser does not have to download three files but just one.
> >
> > This would surely reduce network overhead of downloading the same amount
> > of data but within just one connection, reduce resource usage on the client
> > and possibly (depending on implementation) reduce the cost of accessing
> > three individual files on the server.
> >
> >    
> Have you ever heard of persistent connections with HTTP/1.1?
>
>
> Jan Engelhardt
>  

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