Extending the UNIX pathname syntax

[Chris Torek]

> Also, V8 uses this exact method to do networking. /dev/machine_name/pathname
> gets you a file on another machine transparently.

I feel like quibbling: make that ``as transparently as possible''.  Remote
file access is never going to be quite the same as local file access (if
only because the other machine could be down).
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