Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>]

Bean wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2008 7:19 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> wrote:
>> Please wait a minute. Personally, I don't want grub_file_open to decompress a
>> content automatically. The name should stand for what it does. That was why I
>> named grub_file_open and grub_gzfile_open like this. This was really one of
>> what I didn't like in GRUB Legacy.
>>
>> If you want to have a function to open any kind of compressed file, please add
>> something else (e.g. grub_compressed_file_open).
> 
> ok, i keep grub_file_open as it is, and add a new function
> grub_zfile_open to handle compressed file. i also expand the list of
> commands that use auto decompression:

For me zfile doesn't say a thing. Where as name proposed by Okuji is
clear to me instantly. Our current compilers can handle long symbol
names fine, so why not use them if they make things clearer :) ?