Re: Request: Test suite for EFS.

[Norman Stevens <norman arcady u-net com>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 u07ih@abdn.ac.uk wrote:

> > I suspect that this is fairly impossible without knowing what the intended API is.
> 
> efs_open, efs_close on a compound file
> efs_file_open, efs_file_close (read, write) etc on a file within the compound
> file. Other things like efs_stat efs_opendir efs_readdir 
> 
> The api seems pretty simple really if you understand the unix file stuff.
>  All the efs things are in bonobo/libefs.
> 
If the abstraction is good enough then we could implement all the
proposed ideas as implementations of that abstraction, i.e. offer
the user the choice of saving as efs, tar, directory, whatever.

I'm just wary of a new binary format which is merely a reimplementation
of existing code.

Norman