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I have a suggestion wrt 'foo'class' rather than 'foo'.

Would it be possible to write a layered filter file system
and mount it onto some part or parts of the main system so that,
if I try to stat or open 'foo', and 'foo' does not exist but
'foo.class' doesn't, then I see a read-only executable file called
'foo', maybe one that has contents '#!/somewhere/java foo.class'
or therabouts?

James