Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:01:27 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: If we cannot trim subject lines... |
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I wrote: > (1) Ordinary users wish to copy/move compound files as a single unit, > attach them to emails and put them on web sites. > > Which argues for automatic conversion to/from flat form on demand. > It could be done in user space, and a kernel hook could make it > transparent for all programs.
Stephen Frost wrote: > Uhmm.... tarball. I don't see much need to put that kind of stuff > into the kernel. There are already userspace utils to handle it, and ones > code can be written to talk to tarballs... Perhaps a nice library would > help w/ that (If one hasn't already been written...)...
That's what I said... with a small hook to make it transparent to all programs.
The hook is not strictly necessary, it just means you don't have to intercept a gazillion system calls in every program that's running in user space.
-- Jamie
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