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> On Nov 15, 2018, at 3:34 AM, Whisperity <whisperity at gmail.com> wrote: > > I am really not sure if adding real file system functionality strictly into the VFS is a good approach. This "ExternalFileSystem" thing sounds weird to me. The `ExternalFileSystem` was an attempt to provide a more limited interface while exposing the "external" path in a way that made sense for the RedirectingFileSystem. Like Sam said in the review it's not great because it only does half of the work. &...

I'd like to get some more perspectives on the role of the VirtualFileSystem abstraction in llvm/Support. (The VFS layer has recently moved from Clang to LLVM, so crossposting to both lists) https://reviews.llvm.org/D54277 proposed adding a function to VirtualFileSystem to get the underlying "real file" path from a VFS path. LLDB is starting to use VFS for some filesystem