Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161087AbWBYTdh (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:33:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161083AbWBYTdh (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:33:37 -0500 Received: from dze141s31.ae.poznan.pl.220.254.150.in-addr.arpa ([150.254.220.184]:44241 "EHLO dns.toxicfilms.tv") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161087AbWBYTdg (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:33:36 -0500 X-Spam-Report: SA TESTS -1.7 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -2.3 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.4 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-QSS-TOXIC-Mail-From: solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv via dns X-QSS-TOXIC: 1.25st (Clear:RC:1(85.221.144.160):SA:0(-3.6/2.5):. Processed in 0.755177 secs Process 20944) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:33:52 +0100 From: Maciej Soltysiak Reply-To: Maciej Soltysiak X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1391154345.20060225203352@dns.toxicfilms.tv> To: "Jesper Juhl" CC: Rik van Riel , Jan Engelhardt , , Subject: Re[2]: creating live virtual files by concatenation In-Reply-To: <9a8748490602251052p3e56334ei755c9ce2100e03c@mail.gmail.com> References: <1271316508.20060225153749@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <9a8748490602250735l6161a96dte2805b772a89a436@mail.gmail.com> <612760535.20060225181521@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <9a8748490602251052p3e56334ei755c9ce2100e03c@mail.gmail.com> 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: 1207 Lines: 33 Hello Jesper Saturday, February 25, 2006, 7:52:06 PM, you wrote: > On 2/25/06, Rik van Riel wrote: >> On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: >> >> > Code files, DNS zones, configuration files, HTML code. We are still >> > dealing with lots of text files today. >> >> You say it like it's a bad thing, but in truth I suspect >> people often deal with text files because they're EASY >> to manipulate through scripts, etc. Well, I did not mean to sound like that. My emphasis should have been on that it sometimes is tiresome. I have no problems with plain text files, I still am a human being, not an binary/XML parser or whatever :-D > I can imagine quite a mess if I open a file that is really a view of > several files and then start manipulating text in it across "actual > file" boundaries that could blow up easily. Well, I meant that file to be read-only. Just a quick concatentated view for reading. -- Best regards, Maciej - 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/