Star Network Transparency and the Multi-Root Filesystem
Linked by Will Varfar on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 05:32 UTC
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@Alwin Henseler & @Daniel de Kok
by John Nilsson on Tue 3rd Aug 2004 22:28 UTC

@Alwin Henseler
Why should an mp3 player deal with files at all? An mp3 "player" should do nothing more that decode an mp3 stream into raw audio data.

stdin, stdout & stderr is all a program should ever think about. (I could imagine adding a new interface for configuration though).


@Daniel de Kok

HTTP/1.1 supports persistent connections.


There are other problems with HTTP though. HTTP-URIs are opaque so there is no concept of directories (WebDAV has collections) and files, each URI identifies a resource. If you can read (GET) http://www.example.com/foo/bar/ you can't assume that http://www.example.com/foo/ exists f.ex.