From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 31 11:53:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from holly.calldei.com (adsl-208-191-149-190.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [208.191.149.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEDBB37B407 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:53:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.11.4/8.9.3) id f7VIqsr29459; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:52:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:52:33 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: Michael Sinz Cc: Steve Roome , Keith Stevenson , Leo Bicknell , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <20010831135233.O61360@holly.calldei.com> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <20010830111018.A97057@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20010830111708.A20961@osaka.louisville.edu> <20010830232109.A1077@dylan.home> <00000e180511ee07d1@[192.168.1.4]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00000e180511ee07d1@[192.168.1.4]>; from msinz@wgate.com on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:15:09PM -0400 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 On Friday, August 31, 2001, Michael Sinz wrote: > I too have been hoping for (and building internal tools) that work > this way. I really wish you could just do: > > open("nfs://server.name.dom/directory/file.txt") > > and have it work. That would be nice. (Replace the above with > ftp: or http: or whatever other protocol would provide read and/or write > access.) > > Anyway, I don't see it happening quickly but I don't see it as a bad thing > and I would guess that it will eventually get to that point. (The network > includes your local machine so why not) Whatever happened to not distinguishing different types of file systems from one another in pathnames? And are you suggesting that we add network overhead (I'd still imagine lo0 can't help speeding things up...) to file system accesses? -- +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ | Chris Costello | It's not hard to meet expenses, they're everywhere. | | chris@calldei.com | | +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message