From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 4 8:34: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twwells.com (mail.twwells.com [64.38.247.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5EE37B405 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:34:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xfermail (helo=mail.twwells.com) by mail.twwells.com with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 15eIDC-000GS4-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 08:34:02 -0700 X-Filter-Status: mail.twwells.com ok 48 Received: from twwells.com ( [65.14.140.228] ) by mail.twwells.com via tcp with esmtp id 3b94f43a-00f703; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:33:14 +0000 Received: from root by twwells.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15eICB-0007ny-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:32:59 -0400 Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:32:59 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <00000925020cf507d1@[192.168.1.4]> from "Michael Sinz" at Sep 04, 2001 11:00:37 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Charlie Root Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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