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From: jkimball@SRC.Honeywell.COM (John Kimball)
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Subject: seeking refs re:  special-purpose filesystems, object-oriented Unix
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Date: 9 Apr 91 13:36:12 GMT
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I'm trying to run down references to work which has been done on two
topics:

  1. Projects using special-purpose Unix filesystems.  What I'm interested
     in are filesystems which export the standard operations (open, creat,
     read/write, etc) but also provide additional capabilities to programs
     "in the know".  (I'm already hunting down the paper on "Watchdogs:
     Extending the UNIX File System".)

  2. Projects which are developing varieties of "Object-Oriented Unix".

Once I have an initial set of pointers, I'll take it from there.

(If anyone would like a copy of the resulting bibliography, let me know.)

Thanks in advance . . .
						John Kimball

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