On Friday, August 31, 2001, Michael Sinz wrote:
> I too have been hoping for (and building internal tools) that work
> this way. I really wish you could just do:
>
> open("nfs://server.name.dom/directory/file.txt")
>
> and have it work. That would be nice. (Replace the above with
> ftp: or http: or whatever other protocol would provide read and/or write
> access.)
>
> Anyway, I don't see it happening quickly but I don't see it as a bad thing
> and I would guess that it will eventually get to that point. (The network
> includes your local machine so why not)
Whatever happened to not distinguishing different types of file
systems from one another in pathnames? And are you suggesting that
we add network overhead (I'd still imagine lo0 can't help speeding
things up...) to file system accesses?
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