From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:43:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:43:13 -0400 Received: from adsl-206-170-148-147.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([206.170.148.147]:13575 "HELO gw.goop.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:43:06 -0400 To: Russ Lewis Subject: Re: Has it been done: User Script File System? Message-ID: <992461384.3b27c248c8b0f@www.goop.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:43:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3B27A546.A64F8B00@lycosmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3B27A546.A64F8B00@lycosmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Quoting Russ Lewis : > mount -t userfs /etc/myfs.conf /myfs I did this a while ago: I wrote userfs which allowed arbirary filesystems to be implemented in user space. One of these was a filesystem which allowed you to embed scripts in symlinks, such that stdout of the script was read as the contents of the file. userfs has fallen into disrepair lately, but there are other projects with similar goals. See http://www.goop.org/~jeremy/userfs/. J