From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ItiV6-0001AG-Cp for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:39:44 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ItiV4-00019z-58 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:39:42 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ItiV2-00019g-RU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:39:41 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ItiV2-00019a-Jf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:39:40 -0500 Received: from smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.35]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ItiV2-0005yX-5i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:39:40 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (249-174.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.174.249]) by smtp-vbr15.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lAIBdcke055636 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:39:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mgerards@xs4all.nl) From: Marco Gerards To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <87fxzedmzp.fsf@xs4all.nl> <473B4C8F.1040001@nic.fi> Mail-Copies-To: mgerards@xs4all.nl Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:40:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: <473B4C8F.1040001@nic.fi> (Vesa =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E4=E4skel=E4?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?inen's?= message of "Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:29:19 +0200") Message-ID: <87bq9rrdcd.fsf@xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Subject: Re: Transparent decompression with file system filter X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:39:42 -0000 Vesa J=E4=E4skel=E4inen writes: > Bean wrote: >> Hi, >>=20 >>> Are you still interested in working on this? >>=20 >> Yes, if you think this is an useful feature, I can start working on it. >>=20 > > I am just wondering is there need to read compressed files without being > compressed? > > I like the idea that opening compressed file is in a separate function, > but perhaps there should be some new generic open() function that can > handle both compressed (gz, bz2?, others with modules?) and in case > compression cannot be detected then use traditional file access. That sounds like a good idea. -- Marco