Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261891AbUK2XNJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:13:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261853AbUK2XMA (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:12:00 -0500 Received: from smtp.e7even.com ([83.151.192.5]:21966 "HELO smtp.e7even.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261856AbUK2XLo (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:11:44 -0500 Message-ID: <41ABACA6.2090900@st-andrews.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:11:34 +0000 From: Peter Foldiak User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Horst von Brand CC: Christian Mayrhuber , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Hans Reiser , Paolo Ciarrocchi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: file as a directory References: <200411292120.iATLKZxE004233@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> In-Reply-To: <200411292120.iATLKZxE004233@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 592 Lines: 20 Horst von Brand wrote: >... or just people groping in /etc/passwd wanting to find the whole >entry (not just one field), > the whole entry for joe would be /etc/passwd/joe > or perhaps look at the 15th character of the >entry for John Doe. > > something like /etc/passwd[fullname = "John Doe"]/character[15] ? what is so mad about that? Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/