From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 6 17:29:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04978 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 17:29:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from set.scient.com (set.scient.com [208.202.109.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA04922; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 17:29:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from enkhyl@scient.com) Received: by set.scient.com; (5.65v4.0/1.3/10May95) id AA10283; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 17:29:08 -0800 Received: from somewhere by smtpxd Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 17:28:30 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen X-Sender: enkhyl@ender.sf.scient.com Reply-To: enkhyl@hayseed.net To: Mikael Karpberg Cc: rssh@grad.kiev.ua, chat@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Eek" In-Reply-To: <199811062214.XAA11699@ocean.campus.luth.se> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message