Re: [Gnu-arch-users] file system interface to a database

[Andy Tai]

Yes, such functionalities shall be in the operating systems, and in all operating systems...  

The functionality mentioned here would be especially useful on
Microsoft Windows, where the current tla does not work well due to path
name length issues.

Anyway, if would be good at least if there is a virtual file system
layer in the C library so on all GNU libc platforms an uniform virtual
FS interface can be used... 

On another matter, does tla work on the Hurd (i.e., do the test suites
pass)?  I do not have a Hurd system myself so I cannot test.

On 1/6/06, Alfred M. Szmidt <address@hidden> wrote:

   I worked on creating a virtual filesystem

Such functionality really should be in a real file-system, so that you
don't have to require special libraries to use either zip files, sql
databases, or ftp as your backend file-system.

I just cringe everytime I see yet another virtual file-system library,
you have one for GNU Midnight Commaner, then you have one for GNOME,
you have tramp in Emacs, etc.  This should be in a lower level of the
operting system, so that all programs make use of whatever fancy
features one has without having to modify them.

Did I say that the Hurd supports for all of this? ;-)