> I know bloated GNU projects are generally frowned upon, but I think > it's quite interesting that GNOME's GVFS allows, afaict, per-process > synthetic filesystems. But clearly that's extremely ugly compared to > Plan 9.
and yet there's a key difference. this is a private joke amongst gnome processes. i can give "file" references to gnome programs like http://example.com to a gnome proc. cat(1) won't accept the same reference. i don't know how the underpinings work, but i would imagine ls -l http://example.com would result in some hilarity. the worst bit is there's no sense of a global name space. http:// feels all vms-ey. - erik
