Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:32:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Charlie Root <root@twwells.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <E15eICB-0007ny-00@twwells.com> In-Reply-To: <00000925020cf507d1@[192.168.1.4]> from "Michael Sinz" at Sep 04, 2001 11:00:37 AM
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> All of this started with the quest for URIs being useable everywhere. It's a stupid quest, for reasons others have pointed out. > > When this isn't possible or > > reasonable, it's not only difficult but *wrong* to abstract. > > I never said this was trivial. We (which includes me) tried to start > such a project at Amiga (Commodore) - It was well before HTTP was so > popular. The goal was to hide the specifics and provide a single operation. > FTP support was via a local cache while the file was open and if you did > a write, it would write back the file at close time. See above. There's a reason AFS hasn't replaced NFS. > I was not asking for a magic bullet. (Well, not this time :-) > I was asking that the OS support reading and/or writing of data (whatever > that may be) to a file/filehandle that was created via a standard > system call. Pipes, named or otherwise. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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