From: Eric Lammerts <eric@lammerts.org>
To: John M Collins <jmc@xisl.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Program-invoking Symbolic Links?
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 12:17:17 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0408071208420.10018@vivaldi.madbase.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408051504.26203.jmc@xisl.com>
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, John M Collins wrote:
> latest_version.tar => "tar cf - /latest/and/greatest"
> latest_version.tgz => "gzip -c latest_version"
> Such a scheme would let you implement things like hit counts on web
> sites "for free" without you having to rush out and run a CGI
> program as at present.
So you think this is too much work:
#!/bin/sh
echo Content-Type: application/x-tar
echo
tar cf - /latest/and/greatest
Seems to me you found a solution in search of a problem.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-07 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-05 14:04 John M Collins
2004-08-05 14:34 ` William Stearns
2004-08-05 15:08 ` John M Collins
2004-08-05 16:45 ` viro
2004-08-05 17:34 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-08-05 17:57 ` viro
2004-08-05 18:30 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-08-07 12:26 ` V13
2004-08-05 18:02 ` Rik van Riel
2004-08-07 16:17 ` Eric Lammerts [this message]
2004-08-12 21:02 ` Pavel Machek
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