> I am considering writing a new feature for Linux. Basically it would
> allow you to open arbitrary URLs with the open() call. Something like
> open("http://somehost/~somepage/foo.tar.gz", O_RDONLY)
> or
> open("ftp://somehome/foo.tar.gz", O_RDONLY)
Wouldn't be a cleaner way to use standard open() call on a kind of
httpfs, ftpfs?
And yes, in my opinion, httpfs, ftpfs and others could be a good examples
of user-space filesystem implementations.
Jim
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