On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:34:02PM +0000, Adam Olsen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:16:34PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 01:39:39PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > However, if you don't pass an argument to tarfs, it can assume that the tar > > > file is what we call the underlying file of the translator. > > > > > > If you have a file /tmp/foo, you can put a translator on /tmp/foo while > > > keeping the original file intact. All normal file accesses go to the > > > translator though, the file is "hidden", it lies under the translator > > > (underlying file). But the translator always gets a port to its underlying > > > file, so it can access it. This case is what I wanted to illustrate. > > > > Is it possible to make that transparant? I.e. you can just cd into a > > tarfile without using settrans first, because somethings detects the > > tar.gz extensions and knows to run the tarfs translator on that. > > > > I've been thinking about two ways to do that: > > 1) Set the translator field of every tarfile to /hurd/tarfs. > > 2) Use some special `extensions translator' which automatically sets > > translators for files with known extensions. > 3) as 2, but triggered when you you have a "foo.tar.gz" file and try > to open "foo". Probably useful when other programs recognise the .gz > extension and try to open it as a zip file. (well, I suppose the > dir/file distinction would protect foo.tar.gz files, but plain foo.gz > files would still be vulnerable)
I think letting the translator do it is the Right Way. Implementing gzip in every application is useless anyhow IMHO. So I think we should fix the apps. :) > More important than if you *can* make it transparent, is if you *want* > to make it transparent. But I think it's definetely worth > implimenting. I think there are a lot of people who will use it. Just think about it: download a tarball, cd into it, build the program and install it. With or without the option of storing the changes in the tarball itself (You could make some kind of shadowfs thing). People who dislike it can always turn it off, so that's no problem. We should also be sure to make it secure. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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