Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:49:27 -0400 From: Brian Feldman <green@freebsd.org> To: Drew Broadley <drew@corrupt.co.nz> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting an FTP site Message-ID: <20040604034927.GC85865@green.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <40BFE7A4.8000902@corrupt.co.nz> References: <40BFE7A4.8000902@corrupt.co.nz>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 03:08:20PM +1200, Drew Broadley wrote: > I was just wondering if there is any feature, patch etc. to allow me to > mount an ftp site to a directory ? > > I don't need to know the pros/cons of this, I just need to know Yes > (where ?) or No. There isn't one because in general it's much easier and less error-prone to do such things completely in userland. The main projects I would check out if you want to be somewhere in the middle of those two are: GnomeVFS (http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gnome-vfs/) kio (from KDE) mozilla -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040604034927.GC85865>