Hello,
Let's say we have an archive file hello.zip with a hello world program source
code. We want to do this:
cat hello.zip^/hello.c
gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello
etc..
The '^' is an escape character and it tells the computer to treat the file as a
directory.
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On Oct 18 2007 17:21, Jaroslav Sykora wrote:
Hello,
Let's say we have an archive file hello.zip with a hello world program source
code. We want to do this:
cat hello.zip^/hello.c
gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello
etc..
The '^' is an escape character and it tells the computer
Jaroslav Sykora wrote:
Let's say we have an archive file hello.zip with a hello world program source
code. We want to do this:
cat hello.zip^/hello.c
gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello
etc..
Wouldn't you do this as a user space filesystem?
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David Newall wrote:
Jaroslav Sykora wrote:
Let's say we have an archive file hello.zip with a hello world
program source
code. We want to do this:
cat hello.zip^/hello.c
gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello
etc..
Wouldn't you do this as a user space filesystem?
Which is what you
David Newall wrote:
David Newall wrote:
Jaroslav Sykora wrote:
Let's say we have an archive file hello.zip with a hello world
program source
code. We want to do this:
cat hello.zip^/hello.c
gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello
etc..
Wouldn't you do this as a user space filesystem?
On Oct 19 2007 05:32, David Newall wrote:
The claim is wrong. UNIX systems have traditionally allowed the
superuser to create hard links to directories. See link(2) for
2.10BSD
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=linksektion=2manpath=2.10+BSD.
Having got that wrong throws doubt on
Jaroslav Sykora wrote:
If anybody can think of any other solution of the redirector problem, possibly
even non-kernel based one, let me know and I'd be glad :-)
If I understand your problem, you wish to treat an archive file as if it
was a directory. Thus, in the ideal situation, you could
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:07:45AM +0930, David Newall wrote:
considerations of this whole scheme. Linux, like most Unix systems,
has never allowed hard links to directories for a number of reasons;
The claim is wrong. UNIX systems have traditionally allowed the
superuser to create hard
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:27:16PM +0930, David Newall wrote:
Learn to read. Linux has never allowed that. Most of the Unix systems
do not allow that.
I did read the claim and it is ambiguous, in that it can reasonably be
read to mean that most UNIX systems never allowed such links,
Al Viro wrote:
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:07:45AM +0930, David Newall wrote:
considerations of this whole scheme. Linux, like most Unix systems,
has never allowed hard links to directories for a number of reasons;
The claim is wrong. UNIX systems have traditionally allowed the
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