> Chris Wedgwood wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:00:49AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: >> >> > One of the big potential uses for file-as-directory is to go inside >> > archive files, ELF files, .iso files and so on in a convenient way. >> >> Arguably this belongs in userspace --- and people have put it there.
> I agree that these belong in userspace, and that there's plenty* of > userspace code doing a similar thing already. I don't think there's > any argument over it. > However, as far as I know it's not accessible in a file-as-directory > form as yet. In my opinion that is the most natural form and it would > be very intuitive to use. I hope we can pick a useful semantics for > them, and also provide filesystem-independent plugins with GNU > Hurd-like per-user extensibility. > -- Jamie > * plenty == too much. > Gnome, KDE, Emacs and Bash all see different virtual filesystems. > (All but Bash implement their own virtual filesystem extensions). > That makes them much less useful than they could be. Exactly, and I doubt they have the ability to join together and create a common uniform standard out of it either. They have just far to different views on Linux and how they want things to be done.
