From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 28 04:11:01 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id EAA14624 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 04:11:01 -0800 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA14616 for ; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 04:10:56 -0800 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA24413 (5.67a/IDA-1.5); Sat, 28 Jan 1995 05:39:53 -0600 Received: by bonkers.taronga.com (smail2.5p) id AA10366; 28 Jan 95 05:15:17 CST (Sat) Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id FAA10363; Sat, 28 Jan 1995 05:15:17 -0600 From: Peter da Silva Message-Id: <199501281115.FAA10363@bonkers.taronga.com> Subject: Re: Am I dreaming? To: jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 05:15:17 -0600 (CST) Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <3196.791240166@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 27, 95 12:56:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 592 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > However, I do feel compelled to note that the inability to do this kind > of thing easily only underscores the abominable evil that is the whole > UNIX filesystem paradigm (as if ioctl() wasn't enough to already convince > us of this! :-). Huh? There's already an FTP file system out there. People have been using it. What's the name of it? Alex? Something like that? Just make your symlinks point to that... The UNIX file system paradigm isn't evil. IOCTL is just a hack to cover up for not properly implementing it. They finally did replace ioctl with file system operations in Plan 9.