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Re: Hypothetical design question
From: der Mouse <mouse () Rodents Montreal QC CA>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:36:36 +0000
You might be interested in a paper that was presented/published [...]. The idea was to create a transaction approach for running programs. When you run a program, it creates a copy-on-write version of every file that gets modified, [...]
This sounds related to a project I worked on for the second half of 2002 at the University of Tromsø. I don't know where (or, actually, even whether) it's been published about, but among other things it supports such semantics: modifying a file is not done by writing over the current contents, but by creating a new version of the file, with all versions related in a tree structure. (Some of the versions may no longer have their contents saved anywhere, to be sure.) The semantics are a poor match to the Unix filesystem semantics, and impedance matching between them was a major part of my work there, but provided you can avoid getting stuck in the Unix mold, it's very interesting. If you want to find out more about it, http://www.pasta.cs.uit.no/ is the place I'd suggest starting. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
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