Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 1999 21:27:34 +0100 | From | Jan-Simon Pendry <> | Subject | Re: A few questions..... |
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a paper on the portal filesystem was published in the winter 1995 usenix conference proceedings. i've put a copy in http://www.pendry.com/portal.ps
jan-simon.
jerome@psti.com wrote: > > first try to found all the papers about portal fs. > a book entitled 'the last frontiers' speaks about it. > the author may have a list of all the papers about portal fs. > > dont rewrite it without knowing all the previous tries. > you dont want to make the same mistakes or reinvent the whell > > On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 03:49:09PM -0400, androsyn@i95.com wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Jan-Simon Pendry wrote: > > > Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > Eh, 'users' MIGHT like it better. Not a good enough reason > > > > to go mucking about in every place 'open' gets implemented to watch > > > > for 'http://' at the beginning of a file, esp since a file with that > > > > name COULD technically exist... MAYBE /net/http://somesite/index.html > > > > > > i implemented a general purpose namespace hook in 4.4 bsd > > > called the portal filesystem. you can hang anything you like > > > on the end of it, including HTTP GET, FTP PUT etc. i guess > > > you really want > > > > > > open("/url/type://some/uri") > > > > > > and have the url daemon attached to "/url". (please don't limit > > > this to just http.) > > > > > > > This sounds like a better way to do it....Now I just need to figure out > > how to implement it ;) > > > > Aaron
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