From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262137AbUK3QFt (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:05:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262145AbUK3QFt (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:05:49 -0500 Received: from faui3es.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.33.16]:57818 "EHLO faui3es.informatik.uni-erlangen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262137AbUK3QEr (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:04:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:04:22 +0100 From: Martin Waitz To: Christian Mayrhuber Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Hans Reiser , Peter Foldiak , Paolo Ciarrocchi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: file as a directory Message-ID: <20041130160422.GD19738@admingilde.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christian Mayrhuber , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Hans Reiser , Peter Foldiak , Paolo Ciarrocchi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <2c59f00304112205546349e88e@mail.gmail.com> <1101379820.2838.15.camel@grape.st-and.ac.uk> <41A773CD.6000802@namesys.com> <200411262213.58242.christian.mayrhuber@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YZa61AII3s1sGKYx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200411262213.58242.christian.mayrhuber@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-PGP-Fingerprint: B21B 5755 9684 5489 7577 001A 8FF1 1AC5 DFE8 0FB2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --YZa61AII3s1sGKYx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hoi :) On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 10:13:57PM +0100, Christian Mayrhuber wrote: > Regarding namespace unification + XPath: > For files: cat /etc/passwd/[. =3D "joe"] should work like in XPath. > But what to do with directories? > Would 'cat /etc/[. =3D "passwd"]' output the contents of the passwd file > or does it mean to output the file '[. =3D "passwd"]'? > If the first is the case then you have to prohibit filenames looking=20 > like '[foo bar]'. perhaps we should create a XML/XPath shell and a replacement for the textutils package instead of implementing all these utilities inside the kernel. Then convert /etc/passwd to /etc/passwd.xml and all is well. --=20 Martin Waitz --YZa61AII3s1sGKYx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBrJoFj/Eaxd/oD7IRAs31AJ4ynSBuVumNBZQrPn13EECm3Vj41gCeO9kX MsIXijRrPgphrX28LKWuuEE= =mo4r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YZa61AII3s1sGKYx--