Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

[Shaya Potter]

Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Why do we want this?
> --------------------
>
> That depends on who you ask.  My answer is this:
>
>   'foo.tar.gz/foo/bar' or
>   'foo.tar.gz/contents/foo/bar'
>
> or something similar.
>
> Others might suggest accessing streams, resource forks or extended
> attributes through such an interface.  However this patch only deals
> with the non-directory case, so directories would be excluded from
> that interface.

here's a possibly stupid question.  What about symlinks to dirs?  namely 
the shells tend to treat them differently if postfixed with a slash or not.
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