Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:01:50 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: file as a directory |
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Hi!
> > > You won't get .tar or .tar.gz support in the VFS, for a few simple reasons: > > > 1. .tar and .tar.gz are complicated formats, and are therefore better > > > left to userland. You can get some of the same effect by using a shared > > > library that redefines fopen() and fread() though. It'll work fine for > > > the vast majority of apps that happens to use the C library. > > > > It is not same effect -- with shared library you get no caching. And > > that hurts a lot. > > > The compressed file is still cached, and the library can cache > file contents in a shared mapping. It does not have to > be a per-process thing.
Okay, that way you can get it per-user but not system-global...
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