From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267508AbUIAUnQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:43:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267494AbUIAUnC (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:43:02 -0400 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:9162 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267508AbUIAUlj (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:41:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:41:30 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Hans Reiser Cc: "Alexander G. M. Smith" , Will Dyson , akpm@osdl.org, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, flx@namesys.com, torvalds@osdl.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: Separating Indexing and Searching (was silent semantic changes with reiser4) Message-ID: <20040901204130.GH31934@mail.shareable.org> References: <584702172685-BeMail@cr593174-a> <41310364.8070302@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41310364.8070302@namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hans Reiser wrote: > Symlinks also. Symlinks with powerful queries in them would require a > parser in the kernel. No they wouldn't. You can do symlinks with powerful queries in userspace _today_ (as well as directories which list queries). Making queries be up to date in real-time is still a problem, but that has nothing to do with symlinks or directories, or where the parsers live. > Thanks for helping me to distill my incoherent reasons for the > parser being in the kernel. This is one occasion where you're mistaken :) There may be other reasons for parsing query strings in the kernel (though I'm not convinced there are any), but this isn't one. -- Jamie