Extending the UNIX pathname syntax

[H. Morrow Long [Systems Center]]

In <10102 at brl-tgr.ARPA>	Stephen C. Crawley (mcvax!ukc!camjenny!scc ) writes
> In a message on labelled tapes, Doug Gwyn writes
> > This is getting silly.  How are you going to specify a label to
> > something like:
> >	myprog > /dev/rmt0
> 
> What about
> 	myprog > /dev/rmt0/thelabel
> 
> In more general terms, it ought to be possible to pass device or socket
> specific parameters in the open() pathname.  .......

In the chaosnet implementation for 4.1bsd the nami.c routine has been
modified to check to see if the inode obtained (so far) in parsing the
filename is a character special file with the setuid bit on (a unique
usage) and, if so, stop decoding and pass the remainder of the filename
back to open() and allow the chaos driver to use the network address.

This would allow the following: return_code = open ("/chaos/2002",2);

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