Mounting an FTP site

[Brian Feldman]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 03:08:20PM +1200, Drew Broadley wrote:
> I was just wondering if there is any feature, patch etc. to allow me to
> mount an ftp site to a directory ?
> 
> I don't need to know the pros/cons of this, I just need to know Yes
> (where ?) or No.

There isn't one because in general it's much easier and less error-prone
to do such things completely in userland.  The main projects I would check
out if you want to be somewhere in the middle of those two are:
	GnomeVFS (http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gnome-vfs/)
	kio (from KDE)
	mozilla

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