On 11/06/06, Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
mal content wrote on Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 07:55:30PM +0100:
> On 11/06/06, Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> http://del.icio.us/help/tags
> Seems to me that this would just be a simple manager interface
> built over the existing filesystem. No need to change the filesystem,
> just maintain a database of pointers to files using tags as search
> keys.
About any bloody app out there in userland relies on open(2), rename(2),
unlink(2) and friends. Thus, either tamper with syscall stubs in libc
- see /usr/src/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc for details - or rewrite
userland or be content with a locate(1) quality database. Not
exactly what i might call "just" and "simple".
Regarding myself, _I_ do not feel fit to build a new world right
now. At the very least, i think i ought to spend some more time
understanding the one that we already have, first.
I wasn't talking about replacing or modifying any system calls
at all. I am also perfectly content with the current UNIX filesystem.
What I was saying is that this seems to be a job for a high level
userland application that maintains a database - not a kernel
filesystem.
MC
