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From: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:44:28 +0200
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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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