Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Tonnerre
2004-09-08T06:22:07Z

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Salut,

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:50:16AM -0500, David Masover wrote:
> Transparently?
>
> It _works_ to do
> zcat file.gz > /tmp/file
> vim /tmp/file
> gzip -c /tmp/file > file.gz
> rm /tmp/file
> You can even do that as a script, call it zvim. You could even do it as
> a generic script, where "vim" is replaced with "$1". But is it as
> elegent as transparently compressed files?

...or you get yourself a sane editor which supports
gzopen/gzread/gzwrite/gzclose. You can do that in userland, no kernel
implementation needed.

Tonnerre

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