From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 22914 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2022 15:26:26 -0000 Received: from 9front.inri.net (168.235.81.73) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 6 Jun 2022 15:26:26 -0000 Received: from mimir.eigenstate.org ([206.124.132.107]) by 9front; Mon Jun 6 11:24:38 -0400 2022 Received: from abbatoir.myfiosgateway.com (pool-74-108-56-225.nycmny.fios.verizon.net [74.108.56.225]) by mimir.eigenstate.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id f4d66418 (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256:NO) for <9front@9front.org>; Mon, 6 Jun 2022 08:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: To: 9front@9front.org Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:24:24 -0400 From: ori@eigenstate.org In-Reply-To: <1da79bdf-d8bd-383e-b577-db5eece2dcf6@posixcafe.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: decentralized map/reduce interface Subject: Re: [9front] Pitch for devskel Reply-To: 9front@9front.org Precedence: bulk Quoth Jacob Moody : > > You _can_ just bind things in to your namespace, > and if you did you just wouldn't need auth/box. > The point of auth/box is take potentially deeply > nested/relative paths and to mimic that hierarchy > the the new root. Due to the restriction of devskel > to only permit one skeleton per attach. Mimicking some > hierarchies can be tedious. This removes that tedium. I'm not disagreeing with that; I'm wondering if we can drop the device munging part of it, and instead fix references to '#'-devs throughout the tree.