Re: [ros-dev] FS or not ...

[Joseph Galbraith]

Oliver Schneider wrote:
> >  I give you
> > pudding :-) (The proof is in the pudding right?) 
>  
>  Yummy :) ...
>  
> >  Run WinOBJ and take a look at Device directory. 
> > Notice
> > the \Device\WebDavRedirector device. 
>  
>  Cannot find it on my W2K Pro. 
WinOBJ or \Device\WebDavRedirector... I don't think the webdav
redirector was introduced until WinXP.  And WinOBJ is a sysinternals
tool.

>   How about the \FileSystem object directory? Does it
> show there? 
Yep.

\FileSystem\MRxDAV

> >  WebDav is a
> > filesystem driver (of the kind refered to a
> > network redirector, but non-the-less a filesystem driver.) 
>  
>  Are we talking about WebDAV served by IIS or WebDAV using "Web Folders"
>  component as a client (which I thought we talk about)? And about which OS
>  are we talking here? 
WebDAV using "Web Folders" as a client (I think... definetely not
IIS, I don't have it.)

Windows XP is what I'm looking at... I don't think web folders
were supported for 2000.

In WinXP, you can map a WebDAV url to a drive letter and access
it from a DOS window, or any other win32 program.

That's not a shell extension (unfortunately; it would have been
really cool if shell extensions worked at that level.)

Thanks,

Joseph

PS. Unfortunately, none of this proves that WebDAV uses a user mode
component :-) That is just what I've heard.  But WebDAV is definitely
a filesystem.

Personally, I think it was wise of MS to not put a full
blown webdav client in the kernel.