Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Shadow directories

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Oct 18 2007 17:21, Jaroslav Sykora wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Let's say we have an archive file "hello.zip" with a hello world program source
>code. We want to do this:
>	cat hello.zip^/hello.c
>	gcc hello.zip^/hello.c -o hello
>	etc..
>
>The '^' is an escape character and it tells the computer to treat the file as a directory.

Too bad, since ^ is a valid character in a *file*name. Everything is, with
the exception of '\0' and '/'. At the end of the day, there are no control
characters you could use.

But what you could do is: write a FUSE fs that mirrors the lower content
(lofs/fuseloop/however it was named) and expands .zip files as
directories are readdir'ed or the zip files stat'ed. That saves us
from cluttering up the Linux VFS with such stuff.
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