Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

From: Horst von Brand
Date: Sun Aug 29 2004 - 09:37:49 EST


Spam <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > Chris Wedgwood wrote:

[...]

> > Gnome, KDE, Emacs and Bash all see different virtual filesystems.
> > (All but Bash implement their own virtual filesystem extensions).
> > That makes them much less useful than they could be.

> Exactly, and I doubt they have the ability to join together and
> create a common uniform standard out of it either. They have just
> far to different views on Linux and how they want things to be done.

And the solution is... inventing yet another, incompatible way of doing
things that nobody outside its followers will ever use. Inside the kernel.
Should have thought of that before.
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