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Date:      Thu, 07 Mar 2002 11:57:52 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org, audit@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Extending loader(8) for loading kerels/modules split across several  disks
Message-ID:  <3C87C640.E26DE955@mindspring.com>
References:  <200203071945.g27JjXs01815@mass.dis.org>

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Michael Smith wrote:
> Should you care to be informed rather than playing from the sidelines,
> see the primitive 'stacking' used to implement transparent gzipped file
> support in libstand.

The only place this is referred to as a "stack" at all is in
one comment in the libstand.3 man page, which hardly excuses
you ripping me a new one.

The source code in zipfs.c itself *certainly* doesn't call
it that in comments.

Also the way the operations are encapsulated (not stacked,
since a stack could be reordered) is by directly calling
"read", rather than calling through a "stack".  This
basically means that the reassembly order means that you
would have to call the reassembly both at the read and the
zfread, so that you could handle multipart for both cases
of uncompressed and compressed multipart files.

-- Terry

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