Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266574AbUIEMag (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:30:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266582AbUIEMag (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:30:36 -0400 Received: from c002781a.fit.bostream.se ([217.215.235.8]:10642 "EHLO mail.tnonline.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266574AbUIEMaZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:30:25 -0400 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 14:30:12 +0200 From: Spam Reply-To: Spam X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1819110960.20040905143012@tnonline.net> To: Tonnerre CC: Christer Weinigel , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , Pavel Machek , David Masover , Jamie Lokier , Chris Wedgwood , , Christoph Hellwig , Hans Reiser , , , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 In-Reply-To: <20040905115854.GH26560@thundrix.ch> References: <200408311931.i7VJV8kt028102@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <20040905111743.GC26560@thundrix.ch> <1215700165.20040905135749@tnonline.net> <20040905115854.GH26560@thundrix.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1089 Lines: 30 > Salut, > On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 01:57:49PM +0200, Spam wrote: >> 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. ~S > Tonnerre - 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/