Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:50:18 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 |
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Hi!
> >> What if I do not use emacs, but vim, mcedit, gedit, or some other > >> editor? It doesn't seem logical to have to patch every application > >> that uses files. > > > We would have to do that in either case, so let's patch them to do it > > in a nonintrusive way. And as to reading and writing inside tar files, > > write and/or use a really nice userspace library to do it. (As does > > MacOS/X, as does KDE, etc.) > > The problem with the userspace library is standardization. What > would be needed is a userspace library that has a extensible plugin > interface that is standardized. Otherwise we would need lots of > different libraries, and I seriously doubt that 1) this will happen > and 2) we get all Linux programs to be patched to use it.
libvfs from midnight commander (and anything build on the top of it) already is very extensible. Pavel - 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/
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