From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261957AbVANLh1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:37:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261958AbVANLh1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:37:27 -0500 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:45573 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261957AbVANLhX (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Jan 2005 06:37:23 -0500 To: Diego Calleja Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [fuse-devel] Merging? References: <20050112153131.1f778264.diegocg@gmail.com> From: Nix X-Emacs: anything free is worth what you paid for it. Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:37:11 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20050112153131.1f778264.diegocg@gmail.com> (Diego Calleja's message of "12 Jan 2005 14:32:41 -0000") Message-ID: <87ekgo1btk.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12 Jan 2005, Diego Calleja said: > -Since you can use other programming languages, I suposse it'd be easier for > people to write support for weird filesystems. Very weird, since the FUSE C library layer is small enough that if needs be you can rewrite *that* in other languages as well. I have plans for a Guile version of the userspace part of FUSE, for instance, and some filesystems written in Guile: you certainly couldn't do *that* in the kernel. -- `Blish is clearly in love with language. Unfortunately, language dislikes him intensely.' --- Russ Allbery