Re: translators, ext2 and files

[Mark Kettenis]

   From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   Date: 14 Jul 2000 23:23:31 +0300

   Mark Kettenis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

   >    Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:27:55 -0400
   >    From: Olivier Galibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   > 
   >    settrans -c dummy /hurd/ext2fs `pwd`/dummy
   > 
   >    ...because the translator will end up looping on itself.
   > 
   > Did you check that?  If it really does that, I'd consider it a bug,
   > and I might try to fix it :-).

   I think it would be better to reserve "-" for the untranslated
   node.  (Or is there a place where that would clash with the
   std{in,out} meaning?)

I think it's better to reserve "-" for stdin, and not overload it for
this purpose.

How about having a magic translator /dev/underlying to represent the
underlying node of a translator (similar to /dev/tty for the
controlling terminal)?

Mark