Re: re: mc dav dev

[Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz>]

Hi!

> > > It would be nice to develop a framework that would allow the same code to
> > > be used either as a user-space filesystem for the kernel (like Sharity
> > > Light) or as anapplication-level VFS, like GNOME VFS.  Perhaps GNOME VFS
> > > could provide kernel interface at some point.
> >
> > Hmm, this is done with gnome libvfs. It is called uservfs(.sf.net)
> > these days (used to be called podfuk).
>
> I remember visiting the podfuk page before, but at that time I was
> assuming that it's done on the shared library level, not on the kernel
> level.

No, its kernel level. I could also make it nfs server ;-), then it
would be even portable.

> > Yep. gnome vfs is not multithreaded and that's bad. Someone should
> >
> > 1) clean gnome vfs up
> >
> > 2) rewrite mc to use gnome vfs.
>
> 3) rewrite uservfs to use gnome vfs (if I understand it correctly).

Yep.

> Sounds like a plan.  I'm ready to use gnome vfs in mc.  My only concern 
> is portability and complexity of the build.  I'm not familiar with gnome 
> vfs, but I believe that it's using glib-1.3.x, and glib-1.3.x uses 
> pkgconfig, which is a binary, not a script.

However I probably do not have to make this reality :-(.
                                                                        Pavel
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