Subject: Re: Commit: some GnomeVFS support
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 12:15:46 CST
Thomas F. wrote:
>Sigh ... what a shame all that work has to be done such that
>each and every application has to be modified. Of course the
>support is already there for the QNX applications using the
>ftp/http/whatever filesystem =;-) (score one for QNX!).
I hear you here, Thomas. Bonobo (the Gnome embedding system) also has a
Streams API that I'll probably have to support someday too. Linux does have
support for stuff like QNX's "whatever filesystem" too, though (httpfs,
smbfs, etc...). Where it doesn't, it wouldn't be too hard to add. The
problem is that Gnome runs on Solaris, Linux, BSD, and even Win32 now, so
your following suggestion (though totally valid) is unfortunately
unfeasable.
>I haven't looked at it but it would seem that the GnomveVFS
>is rather a pain to use. Why didn't they just make a normal
>module that plugs into the normal linux VFS layer like the
>Alex ftp filesytem? This way applications could just use
>the standard open/read/write methods.
Dom
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