Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Hans Reiser]

Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Rik van Riel wrote:
>  
>
> > > /bin could be separated (like linus said) but cat /bin/.compound could
> > > do it. This is the /etc/passwd Hans' example, I think:
> > >      
> > Arghhhh.  I wrote it down to ridicule the idea and now people
> > are taking it seriously ;(
> >
> > It should be obvious enough that anything depending on the
> > kernel parsing file contents will lead to problems.
> >    
>
> This is one case where the kernel _isn't_ parsing file contents,
> but I agree it's ridiculous :)
>
> -- Jamie
>  
Umm, no, when you write the glued /etc/passwd file it parses the 
delimiters in it to determine what subfile to put the parts of 
/etc/passwd into.

Inheritance with delimiters is the best way to make emacs effective for 
editing lots of small files, Stallman was right and deserves credit for it.
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