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SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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
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