On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:52:39PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Justus Winter, le Thu 29 Aug 2013 12:41:47 +0200, a écrit : > > 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.
A better example would be providing an exec server for old a.out static binaries for example. But for compression, what Justus describes looks a lot more hurdish to me. -- Richard Braun