From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-09-22T05:18:06+09:00
Subject: Re: MockFS 0.1.2

On 20/09/05, Daniel Sheppard <daniels@pronto.com.au> wrote:
> Except for the fact that you can pretend you're talking to the entirety
> of the filesystem from the root directory, is there much use for this
> that wouldn't be met by running:
>
> mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /somewhere
>
> [snip]

I have never used the progs, but I'd hope that using a mock fs i would
be save from some bug creeping in that makes me execute a

base = "~"
file = "."
rm_rf(File.join(base, file))

where base and file are filled in with their values by a stupid
programming mistake.

regards,

Brian

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