Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 17:28:30 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen <enkhyl@scient.com> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: rssh@grad.kiev.ua, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Eek" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811061724570.455-100000@ender.sf.scient.com> In-Reply-To: <199811062214.XAA11699@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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It might be useful for prototyping of filesystems, which is what I use perl for a lot of times (prototyping in general, that is :-) On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Mikael Karpberg wrote: > According to Ruslan Shevchenko: > > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > http://dd.sh/perlfs/ > > IMHO, Linux-ism > > IMO: "Maybe, but so what? That's WAY COOOOOL!" > it's not a good idea to scrap all the filesystems and redo them in perl, > or anything... but as an extension it can only bring good. > > It IS a rather neat idea... If we could make a similar thing that had the > same API, we could share code with them too. And yes... it's less efficient, > but then again... You don't always care, do you? I mean... if it gets to be > a generic interface (version are written for all BSDs too, etc) then we > might find a lot of obscure filesystems implmented like that... which > might allow us to support reading/write such filsystems to people that > need it, without having to do anything. And these people will be MUCH > happier that they can read/write that file they needed to/from their > obscure filesystem at half the speed then not at all. > > I wonder how much work it would be... How do they integrate perl with > the kernel?? That could get ugly :) > > *starts diggint for details* -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The eBusiness Systems Innovator <http://www.scient.com>; cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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