On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:15:09PM -0400, Michael Sinz wrote:
>
> I too have been hoping for (and building internal tools) that work
> this way. I really wish you could just do:
>
> open("nfs://server.name.dom/directory/file.txt")
NAME
amd - automatically mount file systems
...
DESCRIPTION
Amd is a daemon that automatically mounts filesystems whenever a file or
directory within that filesystem is accessed. Filesystems are automati-
cally unmounted when they appear to be quiescent.
> and have it work. That would be nice. (Replace the above with
> ftp: or http: or whatever other protocol would provide read and/or write
> access.)
What you're looking for is a substitute open() function. Perhaps
someone should just write a URI base library. Put it in the public
domain, of course, so that all UR base is belong to us....
<ahem>
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