Re: could be directory "virtualized" from perl, like PerlIO but for directories?

[snoopy]

in reply to could be directory "virtualized" from perl, like PerlIO but for directories?

On the heavy side, Fuse::Simple lets you map a file system to Perl hashes.

FUSE is implemented at the OS level rather than being Perl specific. it doesn't require root access, but does need a server process (or at least a thread).

The files are really mounted and are visible to Perl and other processes. It's a deeper abstraction which may or may not be what you want.

As a final catch, the underlaying Fuse module claims to only work well under Linux or BSD. FUSE however is widely available on other platforms, including Windows.

I just thought it might be of interest. See also the wikipedia entry Filesystem_in_Userspace.

[vkon]

thanks, good idea

However it happens that I mostly need my task for Windows, and, although you state that FUSE is available for windows, according to http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ it is not supported there.

next, reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace gives me an idea that there is a Callback File System™ - Create and manage virtual filesystems and disks from your Windows applications - but this is certainly not what I want, and it is also not free.

[Anonymous Monk]

When speaking about win32 availability, I do believe snoopy was using FUSE in the generic sense.

FUSE : http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ : : C standard library : GNU C Library

FUSE is to http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ as C standard library is to GNU C Library