Chaining of io-slaves (Was: plans for KDE4)

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Fri July 2 2004 22:16, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Friday 02 July 2004 11:56, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Thu July 1 2004 22:35, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > "chaining" or "nesting" of ioslaves would be cool (zip files inside of
> > > zip files inside of zip files inside of ....) as it happens often e.g.
> > > with .jar archives.
> > > (or gzipped text or html or...)
> >
> > We have that for quite some time already (KDE 2.x?) and nobody uses it
> > and it is broken half of the time because it doesn't get tested.
> >
> > E.g. if you have a gzip file you can use URLs like
> > 	file:/home/bastian/desktop_shadow.png.gz#gunzip:
>
> Does this also work for remote files ?
> Can it be chained in more than once ?
>
> I think we should make a split: ioslaves and filters. gzip, tar, zip, man
> are filters, they read files and convert them to another format. The other
> ones are ioslaves, they work on file systems.

I think you should make yourself familiar with the current code before you 
start making suggestions about how to change it.

Cheers,
Waldo
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