Oh, for ... On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:17 +0100, Ian Malone wrote: >> It should be possible to write a FUSE wrapper that would let you do >> the desktop-interface trick as a proper mount. Not that I'm >> volunteering. It has been done in the past. In more than one of the OSses I have used, the ISO9660 drivers included the translations. I'm pretty sure that included Fedora back around F4 or 5 and before. I'd been wondering how the MARFIAA had gotten us to remove that functionality, and I guess I'm seeing some clues in this thread. > Though, I wonder what you'd do with it then? dd or cat track to the > sound device? mplayer /media/music/track2? (Though it can already do > such things, directly.) cat track to an audio editor maybe? > Another way of showing how audio isn't really a file system: Think > about streaming radio. How about real radio? Or, in fact, air? > It's a similar situation, choose a channel, > listen to what comes through. Uh, huh. > You have a basic selection method, but > after that trying to shoehorn it into the file system model breaks down. You are unnaturally constraining the definition of a file system. Native FORTH has a file system. The user implements, interprets, and maintains it but it is a file system. Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
