Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:10:47 +0100 | From | "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <> | Subject | Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right |
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Joseph Pingenot wrote: > From Theodore Ts'o on Wednesday, 29 October, 2003: > >>Keep in mind that just because Windows does thing a certain way >>doesn't mean we have to provide the same functionality in exactly the >>same way. >>Also keep in mind that Microsoft very deliberately blurs what they do >>in their "kernel" versus what they provide via system libraries (i.e., >>API's provided via their DLL's, or shared libraries). > > Indeed, although certain things could be half-kernel, half-user > (OK, 0.01% kernel, 99.99% user, e.g. userspace daemon that > intercepts certain writes). Of course, at that point, you might > make a special library to interact with the daemon directly, although > it's then not at all like just calling write(). >
I beleive this is 100% user space issue.
And I think if one really want to do something like this - Gnome's VFS is a good candidate for this. They already have all abstractions in place.
[ Yes, sure I'm not using gnome by myself - but knowing nature of the prokect I bet they already started doing something like this ;-))) Ashes to ashes, dust to dust - bloat to bloat. ]
-- Ihar 'Philips' Filipau / with best regards from Saarbruecken. -- "... and for $64000 question, could you get yourself vaguely familiar with the notion of on-topic posting?" -- Al Viro @ LKML
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