From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:06:37 -0700 Message-ID: <412EEB8D.5080309@namesys.com> References: <20040826194010.548e4a4c.diegocg@teleline.es> <20040826182042.GU5733@mail.shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rik van Riel , Diego Calleja , christophe@saout.de, vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, christer@weinigel.se, spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Jamie Lokier In-Reply-To: <20040826182042.GU5733@mail.shareable.org> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Jamie Lokier wrote: >Rik van Riel wrote: > > >>>/bin could be separated (like linus said) but cat /bin/.compound could >>>do it. This is the /etc/passwd Hans' example, I think: >>> >>> >>Arghhhh. I wrote it down to ridicule the idea and now people >>are taking it seriously ;( >> >>It should be obvious enough that anything depending on the >>kernel parsing file contents will lead to problems. >> >> > >This is one case where the kernel _isn't_ parsing file contents, >but I agree it's ridiculous :) > >-- Jamie > > Umm, no, when you write the glued /etc/passwd file it parses the delimiters in it to determine what subfile to put the parts of /etc/passwd into. Inheritance with delimiters is the best way to make emacs effective for editing lots of small files, Stallman was right and deserves credit for it.