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Subject: [gopher] Re: Heads up
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From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Date: 11 Jan 2002 13:36:34 -0500
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I took at look at portal filesystem in NetBSD.  Unfortunately, it
doesn't seem powerful enough for this.  It is only able to provide an
interface via the filter to regular files.  It cannot invoke a program
to provide a directory listing.  So I don't think it'll work for us.

-- John

"Thierry B." <oulala@chez.com> writes:

> > a mountable Linux filesystem, a la userfs[2]. Then all Linux
> > shells and interfaces to the directory system would be able to
> > see the gopher just the same.
> > 
> 	I think that some BSD systems can do that with
> 	'portal filesystems' an Hurd can do that with
> 	the 'translators'.
> 
> 	Th.
> 

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John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>    GPG: 0x8A1D9A1F    www.complete.org