Re: A few questions.....
luc_lalonde@videotron.ca (androsyn@i95.com)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:49:09 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Jan-Simon Pendry wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
> > Eh, 'users' MIGHT like it better. Not a good enough reason
> > to go mucking about in every place 'open' gets implemented to watch
> > for 'http://' at the beginning of a file, esp since a file with that
> > name COULD technically exist... MAYBE /net/http://somesite/index.html
>
> i implemented a general purpose namespace hook in 4.4 bsd
> called the portal filesystem. you can hang anything you like
> on the end of it, including HTTP GET, FTP PUT etc. i guess
> you really want
>
> open("/url/type://some/uri")
>
> and have the url daemon attached to "/url". (please don't limit
> this to just http.)
>
This sounds like a better way to do it....Now I just need to figure out
how to implement it ;)
Aaron
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