Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:20:36 -0400 (EDT) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: A few questions..... |
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 jerome@psti.com wrote:
> ok now the thing is to know which of open("http://www.site.org"); > vs open("/http/www.site.org"); > > one disadvantage, "http://..." breaks the usual semantic of the > unix filenames. > > there is any advantage ?
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
Stephen
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