Re: [9fans] Interested in improving networking in Plan 9

["Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>]

2009/8/31 Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>:
> But this is nasty!
> % cat ndb/dom/'' # same as ndbquery dom ''

No, the nasty part is really that the file should be called `.' and
the filesystem reserves dot as the reference to the current directory.
You could probably call the file `dot' or `root' (cat ndb/dom/dot or
cat ndb/dom/root) as something that shouldn't ever conflict with
anything else -- but the root of DNS is not an empty string.

--dho

> dom= ns=A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET ns=M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>
> And it is not clear how you would map
> % ndbquery attr value rattr ...
>
> Another alternative is to map each tuple to a directory:
> % ls ndb/dom/A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET # just show the attributes!
> dom ip
>
> % grep '' ndb/dom/A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET/*
> dom:A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> ip:198.41.0.4
>
> An intriguing idea that can point toward a synth fs interface
> to a dbms or search results....  But I don't think this would
> be a lightweight interface.
>
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