> All of this started with the quest for URIs being useable everywhere.
It's a stupid quest, for reasons others have pointed out.
> > When this isn't possible or
> > reasonable, it's not only difficult but *wrong* to abstract.
>
> I never said this was trivial. We (which includes me) tried to start
> such a project at Amiga (Commodore) - It was well before HTTP was so
> popular. The goal was to hide the specifics and provide a single operation.
> FTP support was via a local cache while the file was open and if you did
> a write, it would write back the file at close time.
See above. There's a reason AFS hasn't replaced NFS.
> I was not asking for a magic bullet. (Well, not this time :-)
> I was asking that the OS support reading and/or writing of data (whatever
> that may be) to a file/filehandle that was created via a standard
> system call.
Pipes, named or otherwise.
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