Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:49:41 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API. |
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David Woodhouse wrote: > > Open mailer. "Attach File" blahblah.doc. "Attachment error: Is a > > directory". (Switching mailers isn't an option: too many critical > > features in use daily). > > Are you seriously suggesting that this should all be implemented in > the kernel just to avoid having to do popen(tar) in a mailer?
No of course not. I'm suggesting the kernel has a hook -- an upcall to invoke popen() in user space. And only for directories marked as "documents".
So that documents are first class entities.
-- Jamie
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