Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd

[Tom Bachmann]

Einar Karttunen wrote:
> Would it be possible to use per-process namespaces (as in Plan9).

I think something equivalent can be implemented with translators.

> Thus the filebrowser binding foobar.tar.gz to foobar won't affect
> the find in an another window.

The find will not be affected, as it should not list hidden files (only 
if explicitely statet), AFAIK.

> I think this could solve most of the problems, and make the application
> in question make the decision about what it likes to do.

It doesn't solve the basic problem how to make legacy apps interact with 
the polytype interface.
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