Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Horst von Brand]

Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> said:
> David Masover <ninja@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

[...]

> > Just want to extract the tar file?  Maybe something like
> > cat foo.tgz/gunzip
> > In which case (of course) foo.tgz/gunzip has exactly the same directory
> > contents as foo.tgz
> 
> Yes, that would work.
> 
> > In fact, for just about any syntax anyone could suggest, I can't really
> > see why you can't just replace all weird symbols with a slash and a
> > symbol.  Instead of
> > 	foo.tgz#utar
> > you have
> > 	foo.tgz/#/utar
> > Only difference is, some things which used to require special tools can
> > now be serviced by less than what's in busybox.
> 
> That would work, too. I do not get your comment about busybox.

You do need extra tools anyway, placing them in the kernel is cheating (and
absolutely pointless, IMHO).
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