From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <65b0c8e0aa75ffe40701300be74fba23@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: Eric Grosse To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] webls.c - synthesize directories on the fly. In-Reply-To: <42665.135.214.42.162.1065558632.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-eixagkiovqvspximwujshonxws" Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 03:18:42 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6bb774e8-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-eixagkiovqvspximwujshonxws Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, there seems to be enough interest. I'll put it on sources but want to do a little cleanup to it first. I'll post an announcement when ready. --upas-eixagkiovqvspximwujshonxws Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from scummy.research.bell-labs.com ([135.104.2.10]) by plan9; Tue Oct 7 15:09:13 EDT 2003 Received: from dusty.research.bell-labs.com (dusty.research.bell-labs.com [135.104.2.7]) by scummy.research.bell-labs.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h97J9B0C048923 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:09:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by dusty.research.bell-labs.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h97JDN49054736 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:13:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id D4AAA19B70; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:08:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.16.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 731C919B87; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:08:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 13B1E19B8A; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:07:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ensim.rackshack.net (unknown [216.127.72.23]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id DF73A19B70 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:06:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from infernopark.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by ensim.rackshack.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h97KUW108874 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:30:32 -0400 Received: from 135.214.42.162 (SquirrelMail authenticated user vdharani@infernopark.com) by www.infernopark.com with HTTP; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:30:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42665.135.214.42.162.1065558632.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] webls.c - synthesize directories on the fly. From: To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <51ffec3e15f60b424ed83a65a9db2bb3@plan9.bell-labs.com> References: <51ffec3e15f60b424ed83a65a9db2bb3@plan9.bell-labs.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.5) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:30:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,MISSING_MIMEOLE,MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME, NO_REAL_NAME,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,RCVD_IN_NJABL,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,X_NJABL_OPEN_PROXY version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Eric, > A few years ago I wrote a filterfs exclude files matching a > regular expression. We use it on our web site when publishing > part of the dump file system since, as people have noted in > the past, there can be times when you need to effectively > delete things from Venti. > > It's not polished so we never put it on sources, but I'm > willing to do so if there is sufficient interest. I just want to know what you decided on. It would be nice if you can put = it on sources. Things like filterfs are special-purpose ones but I think it = is worth saving the code in a way it is usable when needed. Let it be there like a parachute lying somewhere in the flight. We will use it when neede= d. Thanks dharani --upas-eixagkiovqvspximwujshonxws--