From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Spam Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:32:22 +0200 Message-ID: <6010544610.20040906143222@tnonline.net> References: <200408311931.i7VJV8kt028102@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <20040905111743.GC26560@thundrix.ch> <1215700165.20040905135749@tnonline.net> <20040905115854.GH26560@thundrix.ch> <1819110960.20040905143012@tnonline.net> <20040906105018.GB28111@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Reply-To: Spam Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Tonnerre , Christer Weinigel , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , David Masover , Jamie Lokier , Chris Wedgwood , , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , , , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com To: Pavel Machek In-Reply-To: <20040906105018.GB28111@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org > Hi! >> >> 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. > libvfs from midnight commander (and anything build on the top of it) > already is very extensible. This wasn't my point. My point was about all applications using it. Most aren't. > Pavel