Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:23:32 +0100 |
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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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