Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Hans Reiser
2004-08-28T06:14:44Z

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