Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:50:18 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Cc: Tonnerre <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>, Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
       David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
       Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
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       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Alexander Lyamin aka FLX <flx@namesys.com>,
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Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
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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.
								Pavel
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