Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Lee Revell
2004-09-01T22:52:47Z

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 17:59, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Can I do these already using uservfs?
> > >
> > > cd
> > > less foo.zip/contents/bar.c
> >
> > less foo.zip#uzip/contents/bar.c
> >
> > > less /usr/portage/distfiles/perl-5.8.5.tar.gz/contents/toke.c
> >
> > less /usr/portage/distfiles/perl-5.8.5.tar.gz#utar/contents/toke.c
> >
> > > grep -R obscure_label ~/RPMS
> >
> > I do not think you'd want this. How would you tell grep obscure label
> > without entering archives, then?
>
> Granted, this is where we need "grep --recurse-into-files" or, more
> generally useful, a find option.
>

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.

Of course, no idea how it's implemented, but users like it.

Lee