Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-25,: Re: A few questions.....

# Re: A few questions.....

Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:20:36 -0400 (EDT)

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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 jerome@psti.com wrote:

> ok now the thing is to know which of open("http://www.site.org");
> vs open("/http/www.site.org");
>
> one disadvantage, "http://..." breaks the usual semantic of the
> unix filenames.
>
> there is any advantage ?

Eh, 'users' MIGHT like it better. Not a good enough reason
to go mucking about in every place 'open' gets implemented to watch
for 'http://' at the beginning of a file, esp since a file with that
name COULD technically exist... MAYBE /net/http://somesite/index.html

Stephen

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