RE: gnome



This strikes me as solving all arguments for using VFS. It speeds up
programs because thay dont have to go through 2 librarys, libvfs and the
standard library, it provides the flexability and programs dont have to be
recompiled thus working on operating systems that are closed sorce.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Todd Showalter [SMTP:todd@altsoftware.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 09, 1998 2:02 PM
> To:	Fox, Kevin M
> Subject:	RE: gnome
> 
> On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> 
> > If you had a libvfs NFS server mounted on startup, and then have
> > directories inside for diferent filesystems or somthing like that, the
> > NFS server could be incharge because it would BE root.
> > It could then provide users with abilitys. An example is the Auto
> > Mounter Daemon. It runs on startup and than enyone can use it.
> 
>     Looks good to me.  You'd have to get root to install the NFS mount,
> but that's not so bad.  Heck, I'd use it.
> 
> 						Todd.
> 
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