Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 31 May 1996 14:59:18 +0000 (GMT) | From | Juan Jose Quintela Carreira <> | Subject | Re: packages and the kernel (long, sorry...) |
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On Fri, 31 May 1996, Michel LESPINASSE wrote:
> > Basically I would like to be able to type something like "setpackage > libc-5.3.18" before my make install or my tar xvzopf, and the kernel > would remember for me that any new files it creates are part of this > package. This would allow for a much more generalistic solution. > IMHO you are forgetting that UNIX is a multiuser multiprocess system and then not all the files that you creates have to belong to the package, they can belong to other sesion.
I think that this is a user-related question, not a kernel-related problem.
> > The other way would be to modify a file system so that he's able to > update this package database himself. Probably this would require a bit > more code in the kernel, but on the other hand it should be faster, > because this information would be stored directly with the filesystem > information. It shouldn't be so big as it seems first, because this file > system would only have to add package information in the filesystem (just > as currently it stores acces rights and the like), and all the > intelligent tools we want to have to handle packages would be implemented > as scripts running in userspace anyway. I fact, I really prefer this > second solution, I think there wouldn't be *so much* to add to get it to > work.
I think that this solution has two problems: - you have to add a field to one inode - What type have this field ....
Bye, Juan.
PS. Pardon for my poor English.
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