From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 6 15:05:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17868 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:05:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from squirrel.tgsoft.com (cx20270-a.pwy1.sdca.home.com [24.0.169.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA17849 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:05:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thompson@tgsoft.com) Received: (qmail 17828 invoked by uid 128); 6 Nov 1998 23:05:20 -0000 Date: 6 Nov 1998 23:05:20 -0000 Message-ID: <19981106230520.17827.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> From: mark thompson To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: From NTK... Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is from ntknow, which probably is widely read by the members of hackers, but IMHO it is an idea that should be widely disseminated. It is just about the most, uhm, *interesting* idea I have seen in a long while... >> TRACKING << making good use of the things that we find You know how everything in UNIX is supposed to be a file? You know Perl lets you do everything you'd ever want to do? You know that means, logically, you can return UNIX to its pure, pre-Fall state, where everything *is* a file - anything you want? So you could, say, chdir to "http://www.yahoo.com/", then chdir to all the links on that page? And you know that there's only one person insane enough to thus let you write your own filing system - in Perl? Yes, from the people who brought you the Turing Machine using only dd and sh, we roundly announce: http://dd.sh/perlfs/ - next: X-Windows servers using trained cellular automata -- It may be a pipe to you, but it's a socket to me. -- dmr on an imaginary episode of Laugh in -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message