Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Spam
2004-09-06T12:33:02Z

> Hi!

>> >> What if I do not use emacs, but vim, mcedit, gedit, or some other
>> >> editor? It doesn't seem logical to have to patch every application
>> >> that uses files.
>>
>> > We would have to do that in either case, so let's patch them to do it
>> > in a nonintrusive way. And as to reading and writing inside tar files,
>> > write and/or use a really nice userspace library to do it. (As does
>> > MacOS/X, as does KDE, etc.)
>>
>> The problem with the userspace library is standardization. What
>> would be needed is a userspace library that has a extensible plugin
>> interface that is standardized. Otherwise we would need lots of
>> different libraries, and I seriously doubt that 1) this will happen
>> and 2) we get all Linux programs to be patched to use it.

> libvfs from midnight commander (and anything build on the top of it)
> already is very extensible.

This wasn't my point. My point was about all applications using it.
Most aren't.

> Pavel