Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:33:52 +0100 | From | Maciej Soltysiak <> | Subject | Re[2]: creating live virtual files by concatenation |
| |
Hello Jesper
Saturday, February 25, 2006, 7:52:06 PM, you wrote:
> On 2/25/06, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote: >> On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: >> >> > Code files, DNS zones, configuration files, HTML code. We are still >> > dealing with lots of text files today. >> >> You say it like it's a bad thing, but in truth I suspect >> people often deal with text files because they're EASY >> to manipulate through scripts, etc. Well, I did not mean to sound like that. My emphasis should have been on that it sometimes is tiresome. I have no problems with plain text files, I still am a human being, not an binary/XML parser or whatever :-D
> I can imagine quite a mess if I open a file that is really a view of > several files and then start manipulating text in it across "actual > file" boundaries that could blow up easily. Well, I meant that file to be read-only. Just a quick concatentated view for reading.
-- Best regards, Maciej
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |