Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267880AbUIFMdC (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 08:33:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267879AbUIFMdC (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 08:33:02 -0400 Received: from c002781a.fit.bostream.se ([217.215.235.8]:4310 "EHLO mail.tnonline.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267880AbUIFMcr (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Sep 2004 08:32:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:32:22 +0200 From: Spam Reply-To: Spam X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <6010544610.20040906143222@tnonline.net> To: Pavel Machek CC: Tonnerre , Christer Weinigel , Linus Torvalds , Horst von Brand , 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: <20040906105018.GB28111@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <200408311931.i7VJV8kt028102@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <20040905111743.GC26560@thundrix.ch> <1215700165.20040905135749@tnonline.net> <20040905115854.GH26560@thundrix.ch> <1819110960.20040905143012@tnonline.net> <20040906105018.GB28111@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> 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: 1254 Lines: 35 > 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. This wasn't my point. My point was about all applications using it. Most aren't. > Pavel - 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/