Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives

Tonnerre
2004-09-05T13:44:28Z

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Salut,

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:22:55AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Requiring another syscall to open forks other than the primary
> breaks _all_ existing software because it obviously don't use that
> syscall yet. And then it doesn't provide any advantages over the
> file-as-plain-directory way. . .

Actually...

We might tune the sys_open() call to take an additional argument (the
stream ID), and introduce a compatibility interface into *libc which
chooses strid=0 by default if the plain old open call is being used.

Maybe this can be handled transparently by cpp..

Tonnerre

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