Re: Variable SymLinks: An appraisal...

Marty Leisner (leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:43:58 PDT

Paul Eggert wrote a paper on "an intensional file system", where the
symbolic links could also be commands which could be evaluated at
run time.

For example, if you have
foo.gz

a link could be:
foo -> |zcat foo.gz

(not sure the exact syntax)

I thought it was very useful and clever...

I bothered him for the source, but he said it was in a state to be
distributed (several years ago).

I think these are the references:

Author: Paul R. Eggert
Author: D. Stott Parker
Title: An Intensional File System
Pages: 145 - 146
Publisher: USENIX
Proceedings: USENIX File Systems Workshop Proceedings
Date: May 21 - 22, 1992
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Institution: Twin Sun, Inc.; University of California, Los Angeles

Author: Paul R. Eggert
Author: D. Stott Parker
Title: File Systems in User Space
Pages: 229-240
Publisher: USENIX
Proceedings: USENIX Technical Conference Proceedings
Date: Winter 1993
Location: San Diego, CA
Institution: Twin Sun, Inc.
Institution: UCLA Computer Science Dept.

-- 
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com  
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        2) Think real hard
        3) Write down the answer
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