viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro) wrote on 13.08.00 in <Pine.GSO.4.10.10008130005330.194-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>:
> On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Mo McKinlay wrote:
>
> > Well...wouldn't it be possible to implement a generic 'filefs' modular
> > interface? i.e., everything for handling the pseudo-filesystem gets put
> > into a module which has an API that doesn't change very often at all (or
> > at least, is nicely backward compatible), and doesn't need to be compiled
> > at the same as the kernel itself.
>
> Umm... It will make you run file(1) _way_ too often.
Not really. Or maybe I should say, not necessarily.
Make it so that the magic doesn't get invoked unless you actually try to
handle the stuff as a directory. That is, "ls bla.tar" shows a file, and
"ls bla.tar/" shows the directory. Or the error, if nothing recognizes the
data type.
MfG Kai
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