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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 23:14:35 -0700
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To: David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org>
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David Ford wrote:

> Will Dyson wrote:
>
>> Hans Reiser wrote:
>>
>>> Will Dyson wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
>> String parsing bloats the kernel with code that will be called 
>> rarely, and doing it inside the filesystem module makes for duplicate 
>> code if more than one filesystem does it. But a good common parser 
>> routine (or a kernel api that takes a pre-compiled parse tree) would 
>> reduce the bad taste.
>
>
>
> Like say.. printk() ?  :)
>
or namei()....;-)

Seriously, what we are doing is making namei() more powerful.  That is 
all.  Currently namei() is very simple.  Evolution happens.

Hans