Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd

[Tom Bachmann]

Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > In
> > fact, the shell does not even need to create the different facets in the
> > same directory as the "facetted" file---it can use a private scratch area.
>
>
> It could do this, but I think it would be useful to have it at least reachable
> for other (POSIX) applications. 

who said this private scratch are cannot be a legal path (like 
~/.interactive_graphical_shell/d1fgHS544xfdf54dF/foo.tar.gz__as_dir)?
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