[jdev] Jabber File System !!!!

[Julian Missig]

This is hilarious and intriguing. Thank you. :)

Julian


On 15 Sep 2005, at 23:36, Samuel Goto wrote:

> I am very proud to announce the Jabber File System !!!!
>
>    It is as simple as that : mounting your roster on a file system
> !!!! Check it out in
>
>    http://www.lsc.ic.unicamp.br/~samuel.goto/jabberfs/jabberfs.html
>
>    You can now mount you roster in a file system, like
>
>     mount -t jabberfs /mnt/jabberfs
>
>     View you contact list with
>
>     ls /mnt/jabberfs
>
>     Send messages, receive messages, transfer files, etc !!!
>
>     Well, it is just wonderfull !!! Take a look at the URL to
> understant better what I am talking about !! It is a real file system
> !!!
>
>
>      Don't ask me how usefull this is, because I didn't make it to be
> usefull, but cool !!! hehe !!! Well, perhaps, it could offer clients a
> manner to acess a jabber network WITHOUT the need of libraries written
> in the same language, or they don't need libraries at all !!! Just a
> simple IO lib for opening unix/linux files, and you are done !!!
>       Imagine clients being written as
>
>       fd = fopen("/mnt/jabberfs/samuelgoto.jabber.org/messages","r");
>       fscanf(fd,"%s",message);
>       fclose(fd);
>
>      And remember : they don't have to be written in C !!! hehe !!!
>
>
>       Well, I will wait now your answers and comments, please, give me
> any feedback ,
>
>       cya, mel
>
>       PS Peter, SOC was a great thing in my life as you probably
> noticed !! ehheh !!!
>
> -- 
> f u cn rd ths u cn b a gd prgmr !