Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:16:08 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Tonnerre wrote: > Quel horreur! > Do it in userland, really.
I'm amazed that after all this discussion where all the realistic implementations are done in userland with kernel support for calling out to it, there are people who think the kernel is supposed to decode MP3 files or whatever.
Nobody is advocating that!
> If I get the time, I'll write you a small daemon based on libmagic > which stores the file attributes in xattrs, or if they're not > supported, in some MacOS/Xish per-directory files. Even a file manager > ("finder") can do that, there's not even the need for a daemon.
How are you going to do the part where the xattr changes when the file is modified?
(For example, if I edit an HTML file which is encoded in iso-8859-1, change it to utf-8 and indicate that in a META element, and save it under the same name, the full content-type should change from "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" to "text/html; charset=utf-8".)
I don't see how you can do that without kernel support.
Don't say dnotify or inotify, because neither would work.
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