From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262369AbTJ3LK6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:10:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262372AbTJ3LK6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:10:58 -0500 Received: from natsmtp00.rzone.de ([81.169.145.165]:62693 "EHLO natsmtp00.webmailer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262369AbTJ3LK5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:10:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA0F1B7.7000409@softhome.net> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:10:47 +0100 From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" Organization: Home Sweet Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030927 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: trelane@digitasaru.net CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Theodore Ts'o" Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joseph Pingenot wrote: > From Theodore Ts'o on Wednesday, 29 October, 2003: > >>Keep in mind that just because Windows does thing a certain way >>doesn't mean we have to provide the same functionality in exactly the >>same way. >>Also keep in mind that Microsoft very deliberately blurs what they do >>in their "kernel" versus what they provide via system libraries (i.e., >>API's provided via their DLL's, or shared libraries). > > Indeed, although certain things could be half-kernel, half-user > (OK, 0.01% kernel, 99.99% user, e.g. userspace daemon that > intercepts certain writes). Of course, at that point, you might > make a special library to interact with the daemon directly, although > it's then not at all like just calling write(). > I beleive this is 100% user space issue. And I think if one really want to do something like this - Gnome's VFS is a good candidate for this. They already have all abstractions in place. [ Yes, sure I'm not using gnome by myself - but knowing nature of the prokect I bet they already started doing something like this ;-))) Ashes to ashes, dust to dust - bloat to bloat. ] -- Ihar 'Philips' Filipau / with best regards from Saarbruecken. -- "... and for $64000 question, could you get yourself vaguely familiar with the notion of on-topic posting?" -- Al Viro @ LKML