Re: [9front] new bounties posted

Re: [9front] new bounties posted

[Ethan Gardener]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019, at 3:19 AM, sl@stanleylieber.com wrote:
> http://fqa.9front.org/appendixb.html

re. vcardfs, decoding vcards looks like a job for awk. does execfs still only serve one file? do we have a filesystem which will run scripts to serve multiple files?

Re: [9front] new bounties posted

[cinap_lenrek]

i dont know where you got the idea from that execfs only serves one
file.

you specify a rule file in execfs maps regular expression on the file
path to a command.

theres a example rule file to serve manual pages in html:

/man2html/([0-9])/([a-zA-Z0-9\.]+)	troff -manhtml /sys/man/\1/\2 | troff2html -t '\2(\1)'

execfs is kind of just a toy i wrote to serve manpages from tcp80.

ironically, execfs itself has no manpage.

what it does not do is provide directory listings.

it is probably not what you'd want for a vcardfs where you want
to parse all the files, deduplicate and provide like a index
structure so you can efficiently query the set.

--
cinap

Re: [9front] new bounties posted

[Ethan Gardener]

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019, at 2:26 PM, cinap_lenrek@felloff.net wrote:
> i dont know where you got the idea from that execfs only serves one
> file.

My apologies, I must have misremembered.

> you specify a rule file in execfs maps regular expression on the file
> path to a command.
> 
> theres a example rule file to serve manual pages in html:
> 
> /man2html/([0-9])/([a-zA-Z0-9\.]+)	troff -manhtml /sys/man/\1/\2 | 
> troff2html -t '\2(\1)'

That's cool.

> execfs is kind of just a toy i wrote to serve manpages from tcp80.
> 
> ironically, execfs itself has no manpage.

;)

> what it does not do is provide directory listings.

That's probably what I was thinking of. I imagine it would be a problem for vcardfs.

> 
> it is probably not what you'd want for a vcardfs where you want
> to parse all the files, deduplicate and provide like a index
> structure so you can efficiently query the set.
> 
> --
> cinap
>