jkimball@SRC.Honeywell.COM (John Kimball) (04/09/91)
I'm trying to run down references to work which has been done on two
topics:
1. Projects using special-purpose Unix filesystems. What I'm interested
in are filesystems which export the standard operations (open, creat,
read/write, etc) but also provide additional capabilities to programs
"in the know". (I'm already hunting down the paper on "Watchdogs:
Extending the UNIX File System".)
2. Projects which are developing varieties of "Object-Oriented Unix".
Once I have an initial set of pointers, I'll take it from there.
(If anyone would like a copy of the resulting bibliography, let me know.)
Thanks in advance . . .
John Kimball
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"Thermostats are Good"arnold%audiofax.com@mathcs.emory.edu (Arnold Robbins) (04/16/91)
Peter Honeyman when he was still at Princeton, around 1985 or so, did a special purpose file system for sending mail, called /mail, for V8 Unix. There was an article on it in one of the Usenix proceedings. You edited /mail/host/person and when you were done, it sent the mail to that person. It used pathalias to figure out uucp paths. It was kind of neat, but I'm not sure it generalized completely the way one would like. Anyway, check out the Usenix proceedings from '84 to '86. -- Arnold Robbins AudioFAX, Inc. | Threads are the 2000 Powers Ferry Road, #200 / Marietta, GA. 30067 | lack of an idea. INTERNET: arnold@audiofax.com Phone: +1 404 618 4281 | -- Rob Pike UUCP: emory!audfax!arnold Fax-box: +1 404 618 4581 |