Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:21:47 -0500 | From | Mitchell Blank Jr <> | Subject | Re: A few questions..... |
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jerome@psti.com wrote: > one disadvantage, "http://..." breaks the usual semantic of the > unix filenames.
Which is a huge problem - think about programs that want to limit the files they operate on to a directory - they would assume that since the filename doesn't start with a "/" or "." and doesn't contain "/." then its relative to the current directory. This is of course untrue now.
Breaking the UNIX hierarchical filesystem is a very bogus idea - we end up like NT with drive letters... We're supposed to be above that. If you absolutely have to have a http filesystem look at podfuk and write it in userland.
-Mitch
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