# > But the is a perfect exampe of something that can already be done
# > today in userland -- in this inctance making cp aware of tar.gz files
# > and their internals. Obviously you might want to do this in an
# > external library or something which reads common configuration files
# > and then load handlers based of file extension or something...
#
# No, it is not. Choosing between Yet Another Shared Lib and a userland
# filesystem I'll take the latter, thank you very much. I _like_ my cp(1)
# static and I like to have sash(1) at hand. In userland - sure. Changing
# every program - fsck, no.
One could argue trickery with LD_PRELOAD would accomplish
this... but..yick. Talk about a kludge and a half ;)
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