On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 21:01, Lee Revell wrote: > But is it efficient to make every application that reads files have to > know how to get inside a tar file, just to read its contents? That > seems like a massive duplication of effort. Better to have the contents > accessible via a separate stream, in the same namespace. Fix it once in > the kernel vs. fix it in umpteen apps.
Thats how you get yourself a non useful OS. Fix it in a library and share it between the apps that care. Like say.. gnome-vfs2
