Re: file as a directory

[Hans Reiser]

Peter Foldiak wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 18:48, Hans Reiser wrote:
>  
>
> > David Masover wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Speaking of which, how much speed is lost by starting up a process?
> > >
> > > The idea of caching is that running
> > >
> > > cat *; cat *; cat *; cat *; cat *
> > >
> > > is probably slower than
> > >
> > > cat * > baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz; cat baz
> > >      
> > Only for small files where the per file overhead of a read is significant.
> >    
>
> But if the glued "file" is a stream (or pipe?) you can't do everything
> with it (e.g. seek() ) that you could do with a proper file, right?
>  
It does not need to be a pipe-like file.  Seek can be implemented for a 
composite (glued) file.

> You may want to do everything with it that you can do with a proper
> file.
>
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