Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268237AbUIBK4s (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:56:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268233AbUIBKyr (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:54:47 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:58509 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268132AbUIBKyA (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 06:54:00 -0400 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 From: Alan Cox To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Tonnerre , "Alexander G. M. Smith" , spam@tnonline.net, akpm@osdl.org, wichert@wiggy.net, jra@samba.org, torvalds@osdl.org, reiser@namesys.com, hch@lst.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , flx@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl In-Reply-To: <20040901201608.GD31934@mail.shareable.org> References: <20040829191044.GA10090@thundrix.ch> <3247172997-BeMail@cr593174-a> <20040831081528.GA14371@thundrix.ch> <20040901201608.GD31934@mail.shareable.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1094118649.4847.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:50:53 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 25 On Mer, 2004-09-01 at 21:16, Jamie Lokier wrote: > (For example, if I edit an HTML file which is encoded in iso-8859-1, > change it to utf-8 and indicate that in a META element, and save it > under the same name, the full content-type should change from > "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" to "text/html; charset=utf-8".) > > I don't see how you can do that without kernel support. > > Don't say dnotify or inotify, because neither would work. inotify done right is useful here as well as in a lot of other desktop cases where dnotify doesn't really scale. Its enough to let me - Find the new file - Virus scan it - Classify its possible type heirarchies - Index it Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/