Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right

[Ihar 'Philips' Filipau]

Joseph Pingenot wrote:
> From Theodore Ts'o on Wednesday, 29 October, 2003:
>
> > Keep in mind that just because Windows does thing a certain way
> > doesn't mean we have to provide the same functionality in exactly the
> > same way.
> > Also keep in mind that Microsoft very deliberately blurs what they do
> > in their "kernel" versus what they provide via system libraries (i.e.,
> > API's provided via their DLL's, or shared libraries).
>
> Indeed, although certain things could be half-kernel, half-user
>   (OK, 0.01% kernel, 99.99% user, e.g. userspace daemon that
>   intercepts certain writes).  Of course, at that point, you might
>   make a special library to interact with the daemon directly, although
>   it's then not at all like just calling write().

  I beleive this is 100% user space issue.

  And I think if one really want to do something like this - Gnome's 
VFS is a good candidate for this. They already have all abstractions in 
place.

  [ Yes, sure I'm not using gnome by myself - but knowing nature of the 
prokect I bet they already started doing something like this ;-))) Ashes 
to ashes, dust to dust - bloat to bloat. ]

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