2009/387 [Pathname Reparse Points]

[Jordan Brown]

Yeah, but having this format be user-visible in so prominent a place (ls -l 
output) makes it pretty difficult to make it really be not-an-interface.

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 04:10:43PM -0700, Afshin Salek wrote:
>> This is mentioned in the material that we would have a reparsed
>> daemon is userspace which knows how do deal with the overall format
>> and knows how to deal with service specific parts through a plugin
>> model where each service would have its own module. This would make
>> the whole thing easily expandable for future services/subsystems
>> that want to use this mechanism for location redirection.
> 
> Indeed.  What was not clear though was that a later case would add the
> necessary UI.  Now I know that, so never mind my earlier comments.
>