Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 | From | Christer Weinigel <> | Date | 07 Sep 2004 00:37:22 +0200 |
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David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> writes:
> Second, there are quite a few things which I might want to do, which can > be done with this interface and without patching programs, but would > require massive patches to userspace. There have been numerous > examples.
Please give one example? There is a lot of handwaving here on all sides.
> | I'd go the other way around: Get userspace to agree on a common framework, > | make it work in userspace; if (extensive, hopefully) experience shows that > | a pure userspace solution has issues that can't be solved except by kernel > | assistance, so be it. > > We already have such a framework -- it's called "VFS".
That you'd like to break the semantics of. Great.
/Christer
-- "Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?"
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