Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:56:07 +0530 | From | Amit Gud <> | Subject | Re: file as a directory |
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I cannot imagine viewing the entire filesystem as a single huge XML file.
My suggestion is to add a framework, an infrastructure, in the VFS wherein a simple plugin can be written to poke into the file as if it were a directory. So with that framework in place, I can write a plugin for archive support (treating the .tar files as directories), Peter could write a plugin for poking into /etc/passwd (treating it as a directory), and Jon Doe could write a plugin for sendmail.cf
like: -- struct file_operations ops = { .read = tar_readdir, .readdir = tar_readdir, ...... };
register_file_type("tar", &ops); --
How good would this be?
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