What I'd like in a file system

[Gabriel Sechan]

>From: Stewart Stremler <bofh at stremler.net>
>begin  quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:53:43PM -0600:
>[snip]
> > The advantage isn't to the guy writing a web browser.  Its to all the 
>other
> > apps.  If the network is now a filesystem, you can write to the network
> > from any app that can write to a file.  Emacs, vi, cat, etc would all be
> > able to write to/read from the network.  Basicly, your app would become
> > network aware for 0 lines of code.
>
>Perhaps a workaround could be built with netcat and named pipes?
>
Quite possibly-  nc is a cool little project.  But this seems to be 
something you should get by default.  You don't need to set up named pipes 
and special programs to get a file over SAMBA or NFS, just setup the FS 
level drivers.  Same should be true for other network connections.

Gabe