Re: C needs a URL*

On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:54:58 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

For Unix-like systems, defining /url/ (or /uri/, or whatever) as
the root directory of a tree of pseudo-files mapping to URLs would
not be a totally insane idea,

OTOH, people used to joke that NFS stood for "Not a FileSystem", as it
didn't strictly adhere to Unix semantics (e.g. operations which should be
atomic weren't). A URI filesystem would be much, much worse.

Realistically, a URI filesystem needs to be implemented at the application
level, so that the user can configure the vast number of options involved
for all but the most trivial protocols.

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