Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd

[Tom Bachmann]

Patrick Negre wrote:
> > Marcus Brinkmann wrote :
> > You have to bind a view to a
> If a path to a file contain a non-default branch-translator, the branching 
> must be specified by appending to the node the translator that have to be 
> use. Ex:     "foo.tar.gz:gzip_tr/setup.exe"
> This make paths globals and unambiguous.

Someone already came up with this idea. It is actually quite nice, but 
the problem is that POSIX only specifies one reserved character, '/', 
and thus foo.tar.bz2:as_dir is a valid name. So such a file could exist.

btw, ':' is not a practical separator. I have several files (I did not 
create) on my disk containing ':' in the name.
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