Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >Using this as an argument against plug-ins is a bit strange. I suppose > >somebody could go overboard and use plug-ins to implement a subKernel. > >Would this then imply that plug-ins are wrong? > Ok, I've read some other threads too and so this claim should be adjusted: > Writing a plugin (not necessarily r4 specific) that changes the semantics > of objects based on context (i.e. turning a file into a dir) is a bad idea > IMHO. Right. > Actually, BSD has this double-semantic to a limited degree: you can call > `/usr/bin/vi /usr/bin` and get some binary representation of readdir. How is that useful? read(2) errors out on a directory, and that is fine with me. If xemacs wants to do funky stuff when opening a directory, it is free to notice that special case and do something (readdir(3) and its ilk are quite useful here) about it. [Yes, I did work on some boxen where you could read directories, but with the current variety of filesystems (and corresponding directory formats!) in Linux this way lies utter madnes.] -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
