Justus Winter, le Thu 29 Aug 2013 12:41:47 +0200, a écrit : > > At least to show flexibility of the exec server. The difference between > > the BFD code and the gzip/bzip2 code is that the latter makes the whole > > exec code complex, while the gzip/bzip2 support only has a couple of > > hooks, so even if the feature doesn't seem so appealing, the maintenance > > cost is light. > > But couldn't the same be achieved by installing an unzipping storeio > translator on the zipped executable? It is more explicit, but I'd > argue that this is a good thing in this case and shows the flexibility > of the Hurd as a whole.
That better separates matters indeed. Not duplicating the deflate code is a sign of better factorization :) What do people think about it? That can mean, with nsmux, to exec, say, foo.gz,,gunzip for instance, instead of guessing. Samuel