Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Bean wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> Are you still interested in working on this? >> Yes, if you think this is an useful feature, I can start working on it. >> > > I am just wondering is there need to read compressed files without being > compressed? > > I like the idea that opening compressed file is in a separate function, > but perhaps there should be some new generic open() function that can > handle both compressed (gz, bz2?, others with modules?) and in case > compression cannot be detected then use traditional file access. >
It would be nice if an archive is handled just as a filesystem, like with a loopback device. That would make the support both optional and transparent. > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
