Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261740AbVEJSwj (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 14:52:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261741AbVEJSwj (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 14:52:39 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:9606 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261740AbVEJSwd (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2005 14:52:33 -0400 Message-ID: <428102E8.2020509@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:52:24 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sean.mcgrath@propylon.com CC: Peter Foldiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: file as a directory References: <2c59f00304112205546349e88e@mail.gmail.com> <41A1FFFC.70507@hist.no> <41A21EAA.2090603@dbservice.com> <41A23496.505@namesys.com> <1101287762.1267.41.camel@pear.st-and.ac.uk> <1115717961.3711.56.camel@grape.st-and.ac.uk> <4280CAEF.5060202@namesys.com> <1115739129.3711.117.camel@grape.st-and.ac.uk> <4280E1A9.3010703@propylon.com> <4280EEA7.9080403@namesys.com> <4280F1D5.3060607@propylon.com> In-Reply-To: <4280F1D5.3060607@propylon.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 39 Sean McGrath wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > >> Sean McGrath wrote: >> >> >> >>> The thing that interests me most is the difference (if any) between >>> giving a stream of bytes an opaque name e.g. "Chapter 1 of my >>> book.sxw" versus giving a stream of bytes a query expression that can >>> also be considered an opaque name e.g. >>> "/book/chapter[1] " >>> >>> >> >> What is an opaque name? >> >> >> >> > By "opaque name" I mean a name that is purely a label. A name that > cannot be interpreted as a query expression. Isn't query just another name for name? > > Sean > > > > > - 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/