lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1999]   [Jun]   [24]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: A few questions.....
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


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:52    [W:0.055 / U:0.396 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site