From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2003-01-11T09:14:21+09:00
Subject: Re: 'borrow' Tcl's virtual file system

On Friday 10 January 2003 03:09 pm, Brennan Leathers wrote:
> On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 08:32  AM, Dossy wrote:
> > The basic idea is that when you tell Tcl that you're using a VFS, it
> > secretly redirects all file I/O activity to happen to the VFS and not
> > to
> > the real FS.  An example of how this might "look" from Ruby might be:
>
> having used tcl in the past, I know what you refer to re: the VFS. I
> know this is not an optimal solution, but there is the Objective-C
> class NSFileHandle which opens either files or sockets for r/w. I
> assume this available thru rubycocoa, just thought Id throw this out
> there for mac ppl.
>
> brennan

there is also a virtual file system project that works at the file system 
level. i don't recall off hand what it was called. it was recently in linux 
journal i beleive. from what i read it was coming along nicely and i imagine 
will make its way as a standard of distributions after a while. so having a 
Ruby level version to this kind of thing may be mute, except that it Might be 
cross-platform.

-- 
tom sawyer, aka transami
transami@transami.net


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