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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 14:30:12 +0200
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> Salut,

> On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 01:57:49PM +0200, Spam wrote:
>>   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.

  ~S

> 			    Tonnerre