Re: A few questions.....

Alexander Viro (androsyn@i95.com)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:22:32 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 jerome@psti.com wrote:

> the advantage of open("http://www.site.org"); vs open_http("www.site.org");
> is the possiblity of the existing code -without- modification. all
> the current tools would work as is.
>
> example: cat http://www.site.org/index.html | less
This is exactly what I was thinking. I know there are current userspace
solutions to this...but this is the sort of thing that would be
interesting to do....Don't forget other goodies like

cp ftp://ftp.bz2.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.3/linux-2.3.x.tar.bz2 /usr/src

Aaron

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