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From: | Tom Bachmann |
Subject: | Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd |
Date: | Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:44:33 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051031) |
Patrick Negre wrote:
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"Marcus Brinkmann wrote : You have to bind a view to aThis 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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