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Subject: IEEE 1003.2
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Date: 4 Jan 89 15:55:33 GMT
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...> Library archives as directories ( /lib/c/*.o)

Why not be able to do it both ways?  Why not define a
"filesystem within a file" filesystem type, so that you
can look at a library both as a file and as a directory.
In some ways, the raw disk is already like this.

Has anyone else out there got a "filesystem within a
file"? Methinks der Mouse has something like that at
McGill. Here, when the Little Software House on the
Prairie was owned by Gould, we did something very like
that for generating distributions, although we never
put in the kernel hooks (couldn't figure out how to
make them secure).

Andy "Krazy" Glew   aglew@urbana.mcd.mot.com   uunet!uiucdcs!mcdurb!aglew
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