From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 31 11:37:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.newgold.net (aphex.newgold.net [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE80437B407 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21719 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Aug 2001 18:37:37 -0000 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 18:37:37 +0000 From: Joseph Mallett To: Michael Sinz Cc: Steve Roome , Keith Stevenson , Leo Bicknell , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should URL's be pervasive. Message-ID: <20010831183737.B21431@NewGold.NET> 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 In-Reply-To: <00000e180511ee07d1@[192.168.1.4]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i Organisation: New Gold Technology 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 Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:15:09PM -0400, Michael Sinz wrote: > > 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) Check out ftpfs in the HURD. That might be a better way to do it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message