What’s next? We all know about devfs and similar file systems, and many of us use unionfs or nullfs. However – what other utility file systems would be useful, that we haven’t built yet? I think tools like FUSE have given a lot of people some very creative ways of thinking about file systems, but how can that be extended into other areas?
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- @kennyvz I think so - app store for my tv? Yes, thank you.
- @Dr_Touch there's geotagging, but I don't see a wsy to see OTHER peoples geotag.
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- Just saw an ad for MySpace. What do they do again? Forgot..
- @andrewwatson I guess Twitter is now known as the grapevine.
One thing that’s not new is ditching the TCP/IP “sockets” API in favor of file system-like semantics. Historically, Unix has favored “everything is a file” approach and the sockets API was one of the first that didn’t follow that path.
I feel it’s inconsistent that we can’t just open /dev/fxp0 for reading and sniff the network, or open it for writing and inject packets.