Scott Henry wrote:
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> A> This was thrashed through a number of months back on the gnome list.
> A> The debate concerned whether the exercise of unifying FTP/HTTP/etc with
> A> filesystems should be done in user space or the OS. User space won out
> A> (A VFS library, but limited to gnome apps only) because gnome is not
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> limitations can be som limiting...
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> A> just for linux.
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> Is this on the Gnome pages? If not, could you plese forward me a URL? thanks!
Scott,
this could be useful as a back-end:
"AVFS is a C library add-on, which enables all
programs to look inside gzip, tar, zip, ...
files, without recompiling the programs or
changing the kernel. At the moment it supports
tar, zip, gzip, bzip2, ar and rar files read
only, and floppies read-write."
http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/avfs.html
this references the Gnome VFS which is described at
http://www.gnome.org/mc/manual-i.html
The KDE system's kioslave process has a similar abstraction layer.
