Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Lee Revell
2004-09-02T17:50:43Z

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 10:25, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > FWIW, this is how Windows does it now. As of XP, 'Find files' has an
> > option, enabled by default, to look inside archives. If you tell it to
> > look for a driver in a given directory it will also look inside .cab
> > and .zip files. It's extremely useful, I would imagine someone who uses
> > XP a lot will come to expect this feature.
>
> It is trivial to implement this by looking inside the files. I.e., the way
> mc has done this for ages.

This requires a separate, MC-specific namespace. The point is to unify
the namespace, not fragment it.

If Hans had a comprehensible web page, maybe more people would
understand this aspect of his argument. Would you put digressions about
chaos theory and King Arthur in a man page?

Lee