Glee Cheatsheet: File Context Operators

Note: Glee is experimental. Glee's handling of Files and File Contexts is very experimental. My objective for handling files is to have a separate process that owns the file and services requests. To implement this, Glee must be able to spawn processes (it can't do that yet). With such a design, the process (and associated Glee programs )can take total control of FC and File access. This removes many of the issues related to file sharing, security, authorization, accounting, etc. and their implementation on various platforms. Glee managed Files and File Contexts will give exclusive, non-shared, full rights access to the process. For now, what is described here may or may not exist at various points in time and may or may not be contained in a supported edition of Glee. What is going on here is software sculpture and tunneling.

This interem solution to Glee's handling of files has built in protection for Paths. Glee will only manage files (i.e. create them, write to them, and destroy them) if they exist off of the root FC "c:\glee\user\". Some of the Glee functionality is very powerful and forceful (e.g. .purge) and an error in programming could cause major chaos on the computer if this restriction was not employed in this experimental stage. A supported version of Glee will relax this restriction and move it into the user managed domain giving more complete access to the computer's (and network's) resources under Glee system control.

Keys: D: Dyadic; M: Monadic; N: Niladic