Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives

[Tonnerre]

Salut,

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:24:40AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> If you can open a fork/substream/whatever by issuing
> open("filename/forkname", ...
> then the old-fashioned open() works with multi-fork files too.
> An tools based on "open() something, then work with
> the resulting file descriptor" will work _unchanged_
> with such a multi-fork fs.

In my version they'd run unchanged as well.

And  BTW,  I wasn't  talking  about introducing  a  new  open at  libc
level.  I was  talking about  modifying the  open system  call  in the
kernel and having libc provide compatibility for the old call.

Since  I'm not  sure  how much  breakage it  takes  to make  a file  a
directory.

			    Tonnerre

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