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Re: GSoC, translators



Saturday 26 of April 2008 19:22:57 napisałeś(-łaś):
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Marek Dopiera wrote:
> > - vfs modifications to allow "mounting" on non-directories
>
> You've mentioned this several times, but I don't understand what it means.
> Can you illustrate a few examples / use cases?
>
Basicaly it means that not only directories can be mount points. In Hurd, 
symbolic links are in fact translators. So are for example TCP/IP stack, 
fifos, sockets. All of them are set on other files than directories. An 
exotic idea came to my head right now: if for some reason you have a file 
split into several smaller ones, it would be easy to write a translator which 
once set on a file, would pretend all these files concatenated.

Regards

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