Re: The obligation of free stuff: Google Storage

2010-06-20 Thread Aaron Sherman
First off, I again have to caution that this thread is conflating "open" with filesystem interaction. While open is one of many ways of interacting with a filesystem, it isn't even remotely sufficient (nor my immediate focus). One can ask for and modify filesystem metadata, security information, an

Re: The obligation of free stuff: Google Storage

2010-06-20 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 21:17 -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Jun 10, 2010, at 07:22 , Leon Timmermans wrote: > > I agree it should be similar to normal FS interactoin to make matters > > as intuitive as possible, but I horrified by the idea of overloading > > open() that way. That's a P