> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 androsyn@i95.com wrote:
>
> > 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.
As a filesystem I could see it possibly going into the kernel, and
have something like '/http/somehost/something.tar.gz'. That seems to make
some amount of sense to me, and be cleaner than hacking up things to watch
for 'http://' at the beginning of something...
Stephen
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