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SubjectRe: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right
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On Thursday 30 October 2003 03:03, Joseph Pingenot wrote:
> Actually, thinking about it, it's ideal to have as a pluggable userspace
> daemon: on open() or a little after, determine the filetype, and forward
> interactions to a module/plugin that knows how to deal with that
> data format. The plugin then calls some under-process (either back to
> the daemon or some other thing) to then archive off the information.

Sounds a little bit like the STREAMS interface.

You could also have a wrapper around your own open() which can do more.
But sth. like you suggest is done by KDE already internally (and Gnome maybe
too),


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