Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:34:41 -0400 | | From | Ross Biro <> | | Subject | Re: reiser4 plugins |
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On 6/29/05, Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 01:09:05 -0400, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> said: > > > Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> wrote: [...] > > And doing "tar cf /dev/tape /usr/games/tetris" gives you a nice tangle > > of undecipherable junk. >
I'm confused. Can someone on one of these lists enlighten me?
How is directories as files logically any different than putting all data into .data files and making all files directories (yes you would need some sort of special handling for files that were really called .data). Then it's just a matter of deciding what happens when you call open and stat on one of these files?
For backwards compatibility, current existing system calls have to treat these things as directories. Perhaps an exception could be made for exec.
But we could have a whole new set of system calls that treat things as magic, and if files as directories is as cool as many people think, apps will start using the new api. If not, they won't and the new api can be deprecated.
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