Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269499AbUICQpG (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:45:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269517AbUICQov (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:44:51 -0400 Received: from [195.135.223.198] ([195.135.223.198]:12928 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269499AbUICQnA (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:43:00 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 17:48:04 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Jamie Lokier , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , Adrian Bunk , Hans Reiser , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Christoph Hellwig , fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4) Message-ID: <20040903154804.GC1396@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20040826150202.GE5733@mail.shareable.org> <200408282314.i7SNErYv003270@localhost.localdomain> <20040901200806.GC31934@mail.shareable.org> <1094118362.4847.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040902161130.GA24932@mail.shareable.org> <1094146912.31495.13.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094146912.31495.13.camel@shaggy.austin.ibm.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 950 Lines: 22 Hi! > > Thirdly, you must be referring to the Gnome versions of Bash, Make, > > GCC, coreutils and Perl which I haven't found. Perhaps we have a > > different idea of what "supports this" means :) > > Please don't tell me that we have expectations to run make from within a > tar file. This is getting silly. tar does a pretty good job of > extracting files into real directories, and putting them back into an > archive. I don't see a need to teach the kernel how to deal with > compound files when user space can do it very easily. Actually its not easy. User has to manually extract it and manually delete it when he's done. Not nice. Pavel -- When do you have heart between your knees? - 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/