Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 00:30:29 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 11:46:08PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Mo McKinlay wrote: > > > Being able to do.. > > > > $ cp files.tar.gz/docs/mydoc1.txt . > > > > Would be useful. > > Here it comes... > > > 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.
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