Re: updates?

[Tom Tromey <tromey creche cygnus com>]

Paul> But can't bash, csh, whatnot access the VFS as if it were a
Paul> natural file system?  If not, then the whole idea of a VFS is
Paul> less useful.

Not without hacking them.

IMHO the best way to make VFS truly invisible is to actually put it in
the filesystem layer.  Enabling this was one of the goals of HURD
(sigh).


This doesn't mean that VFS isn't still useful in its more limited role
on the desktop, though.

Tom