> Chris Wedgwood wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 02:00:49AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
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>> > One of the big potential uses for file-as-directory is to go inside
>> > archive files, ELF files, .iso files and so on in a convenient way.
>> 
>> Arguably this belongs in userspace --- and people have put it there.

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> I agree that these belong in userspace, and that there's plenty* of
> userspace code doing a similar thing already.  I don't think there's
> any argument over it.

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> However, as far as I know it's not accessible in a file-as-directory
> form as yet.  In my opinion that is the most natural form and it would
> be very intuitive to use.  I hope we can pick a useful semantics for
> them, and also provide filesystem-independent plugins with GNU
> Hurd-like per-user extensibility.

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> -- Jamie

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> * plenty == too much.
>   Gnome, KDE, Emacs and Bash all see different virtual filesystems.
>   (All but Bash implement their own virtual filesystem extensions).
>   That makes them much less useful than they could be.

  Exactly,  and  I  doubt  they  have the ability to join together and
  create  a  common  uniform standard out of it either. They have just
  far to different views on Linux and how they want things to be done.