Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:44:28 +0200 | From | Tonnerre <> | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives |
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Salut,
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:22:55AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Requiring another syscall to open forks other than the primary > breaks _all_ existing software because it obviously don't use that > syscall yet. And then it doesn't provide any advantages over the > file-as-plain-directory way. . .
Actually...
We might tune the sys_open() call to take an additional argument (the stream ID), and introduce a compatibility interface into *libc which chooses strid=0 by default if the plain old open call is being used.
Maybe this can be handled transparently by cpp..
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