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indeed. both a filesystem or a piping process like discussed in
previous emails can be used easily from rc

On 8/31/21, unobe@cpan.org <unobe@cpan.org> wrote:
> Quoth Amavect <amavect@gmail.com>:
>> Not everything needs to be a file system.
>> A program still needs to deserialize and load structs.
>> A 9p fs just doesn't do that.
>
> That's true, there are benefits to a programming library (namely,
> performance).  But doesn't a file system that presents a consistent
> interface allow for a choice of programming language and for the
> ability to abstract further?  For instance, having xmlfs (if such a
> thing existed) would allow for rc programs to do some simple tasks
> that need to muck with xml.
>
>