-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Thornton wrote: > Wouldn't it be nice if Unix worked like Unix was supposed to work, and > everything *WERE* a file?
Well, for what it's worth, and by fits and starts and with no real plan, Linux is actually working it's way slowly in that general direction. A few examples which I couldn't do 10 years ago: $ ls /sys/class/net/ eth0 eth1 lo sit0 $ ls /sys/module/ autofs4 dm_zero ip6t_REJECT md_mod pci_hotplug psmouse usbhid (...snippage...) And then there's the interesting stuff one can do with FUSE (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=FileSystems), like like the database filesystems (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=DatabaseFileSystems), httpfs (http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/) or bloggerfs (http://mundau.blogspot.com/2006/12/bloggerfs-last-night-i-was-playing.html) . I can only hope the trend continues. I'd much prefer that some overall plan or thought was given toward this, though. - -- Pat -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpL+QYACgkQNObCqA8uBsxiegCdEDj2T/uoVq7kPVSytN1tnxAl KpcAn0MAW3gFvbqbw63oOIeKbdKG9jKw =wuHg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
