From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] telnet From: rog@vitanuova.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 20:15:45 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6be58a44-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > There already seems to be some movement towards this naming convention, > eg in upasfs(4): > > Fs interprets mailbox file names of the form > /proto/host/user to mean access an account on host using the > given protocol. i'm not too keen on this kind of thing, in addition to the reasons quoted by geoff, because such a directory structure is inherently unenumerable. moreover it's not very clear how long the connection to the remote machine should stay valid. do you guess, and have a timeout cache? do you make the connection close down when the last reference goes away (which you might not want either)? what if i want "host" to be "/net.alt/tcp!somehost.com"? this was the kind of thing that might be solved reasonably elegantly, i think, by that "idea" i mentioned in a previous post. (which i kind of expected a little discussion on, but there y'go)