Re: updates?

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> 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).

Apparently, Pavel Machek has some time for looking into the one or two
problems I was aware that were required to do use the vfs as a shared
object that can be LD_PRELOADED.

Miguel.