re: gnome

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

> Does all the unixes that have gnome support have the ability to use
> modules?
> Could there be a VFS virtual file system module produced for Linux,
> Solaris, whatever, to allow virtual filesystem code to be the same? The
> module on each os would be different reflecting the differences between
> os's but the VFS module will talk to VFS librarys that are coded exactly
> the same way. If somthing like this is done a program wont have to be
> spacificly programmed to work with VFS. It just asks the os for a file.
> 
> Example : 
> KERNEL:
> Filesystems, Ext2, msdos, vfat, iso9660, vfs
> then the vfs filesystem has its own filesystems
> ftp, tar, whatever.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Havoc Pennington [SMTP:rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, December 08, 1998 2:14 PM
> To:	Fox, Kevin M
> Subject:	RE: gnome
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> > To use VFS does a program have to talk to a VFS library or somthing?
> >
> 
> Yes, that's pretty much the only way to share code between programs,
> without making them part of the OS.
> 
> Havoc
>