Copy-on-write for develop

2008-01-05 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
I'm doing some initial thinking about how I want the Develop activity to work. I'd like it to start out with write access to a shallow (file-linked) copy of the activity's whole directory, and then if there are any writes, start up source control. I'm not an expert on file systems, though, so I

Re: Copy-on-write for develop

2008-01-05 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jameson Chema Quinn wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible for Sugar to support something like this? That is, if it there's any way - either file-system-native or through some strap-on - to safely hand a link to a process so that (either