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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How about a virtual file system ? (was: Re: file attributes)
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.211459.21673@kithrup.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 91 21:14:59 GMT
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In article <7fhlg4h@rpi.edu> joefritz@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Jochen M. Fritz) writes:
>Each file in this FS would
>contain two links--one for the data, and another a driver program that can 
>the file.

It's been done before, as I've mentioned earlier in this thread.  Watchdogs.
When the FSF comes out with the GNU OS, watchdogs (or their moral
equivalent) should be relatively easy to add (they've got the trappings in
the filesystem already).

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