Re: [RFC] File flags handling - proposal for API.

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:49:41 +0200

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David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Open mailer. "Attach File" blahblah.doc. "Attachment error: Is a
> > directory". (Switching mailers isn't an option: too many critical
> > features in use daily).
>
> Are you seriously suggesting that this should all be implemented in
> the kernel just to avoid having to do popen(tar) in a mailer?

No of course not. I'm suggesting the kernel has a hook -- an upcall to
invoke popen() in user space. And only for directories marked as
"documents".

So that documents are first class entities.

-- Jamie

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