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This is an old idea behind “everything is file” and plan9, afaik. FUSE allows this, you can easily write a “driver” that does exactly this on a mountpoint like
by wruza 2y ago
This is an old idea behind “everything is file” and plan9, afaik. FUSE allows this, you can easily write a “driver” that does exactly this on a mountpoint like /mnt/mywebfs/whatever.com/search?q=….
/proc (procfs) is basically this but for kernel structures.
- keepamovin 2y agoI recall somebody did this with www, I think at first using a browser extension? Webfs possibly. It is a really cool idea. I find it makes many things easy to deal with, and those that aren’t? Interesting to think about. The hierarchical abstraction of a file system is a good model from many things