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.

  This wasn't my point. My point was about all applications using it.
  Most aren't.

> 								Pavel



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