Re: gnome

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

>     There are problems even in X.  What do you do (for instance) if the
> FreeBSD folks go and impliment tarfs as part of the kernel, and it behaves
> differently from the gnome version of tarfs?  Do you ignore the underlying
> OS fs?  

On that system we just would use what the OS provides.  But right now
I dont see any OS that ships with tar and compressed tar support.

> You are also taking responsibility for things like security,
> locking, and other general filesystem issues that may require suid
> binaries and will be a hassle to maintain.

Can you give me a concrete example of how this happens?   Point out
the problem. 

Miguel.