libio preparation for file systems

[Joel Sherrill]

On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Chris Johns wrote:

> 
> I also agree. I have been looking for a way to manage a very basic
> element management user interface. I decided a sort of directory tree
> would be the way. For example the rtems monitor. If a basic shell
> existed, a user could enter
> 
> $ cd /cmds/mon
> $ ls
> < list of monitor commands >
> $ task
> < monitor task command output >
> 
> The sort of approach above would help to achive this. All this
> filesystem would do is call functions with the remainder of the
> command line.

I was thinking about how one could easily get this type of functionality.
It might be funny writing some of these things as file systems but it
would provide a cool interface.

--joel