Re: A few questions.....

jerome@psti.com
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:02:38 -0400


first try to found all the papers about portal fs.
a book entitled 'the last frontiers' speaks about it.
the author may have a list of all the papers about portal fs.

dont rewrite it without knowing all the previous tries.
you dont want to make the same mistakes or reinvent the whell

On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 03:49:09PM -0400, androsyn@i95.com wrote:
> 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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