Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268111AbUIBRun (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:50:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268064AbUIBRsZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:48:25 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:52450 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268111AbUIBRrv (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:47:51 -0400 Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 From: Lee Revell To: Horst von Brand Cc: Jamie Lokier , Pavel Machek , David Masover , Chris Wedgwood , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List In-Reply-To: <200409021425.i82EPn9i005192@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> References: <200409021425.i82EPn9i005192@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1094147268.11364.48.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 13:47:49 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1101 Lines: 28 On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 10:25, Horst von Brand wrote: > Lee Revell said: > > [...] > > > 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. > > It is trivial to implement this by looking inside the files. I.e., the way > mc has done this for ages. This requires a separate, MC-specific namespace. The point is to unify the namespace, not fragment it. If Hans had a comprehensible web page, maybe more people would understand this aspect of his argument. Would you put digressions about chaos theory and King Arthur in a man page? Lee - 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/