mc/vfs
Pavel Roskin 79b4c398de * extfs/rpm: Workaround for spaces and single quotes in the path
name.
2004-01-24 00:48:46 +00:00
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extfs * extfs/rpm: Workaround for spaces and single quotes in the path 2004-01-24 00:48:46 +00:00
samba * samba/configure.in: Rename to ... 2004-01-22 06:30:30 +00:00
.cvsignore *.sor added. 2001-06-01 13:39:53 +00:00
COPYING.LGPL 1999-06-01 Robert Brady <rwb197@ecs.soton.ac.uk> 1999-06-22 19:56:36 +00:00
ChangeLog * extfs/rpm: Workaround for spaces and single quotes in the path 2004-01-24 00:48:46 +00:00
HACKING Initial version of technical documentation for VFS. 2003-10-30 05:52:35 +00:00
Makefile.am * samba/configure.in: Rename to ... 2004-01-22 06:30:30 +00:00
README Ran file through ispell, this is result :-) 1999-02-07 17:44:52 +00:00
README.fish Typos. 2003-06-02 19:47:30 +00:00
cpio.c * gc.c: Eliminate all code for timestamping parent filesystems. 2003-11-26 21:10:42 +00:00
direntry.c * gc.c: Eliminate all code for timestamping parent filesystems. 2003-11-26 21:10:42 +00:00
extfs.c * gc.c: Eliminate all code for timestamping parent filesystems. 2003-11-26 21:10:42 +00:00
fish.c * fish.c (fish_open_archive_int): Save some stack and place -C 2003-12-06 04:24:56 +00:00
ftpfs.c * gc.c: Eliminate all code for timestamping parent filesystems. 2003-11-26 21:10:42 +00:00
ftpfs.h Global removal of RCS Id: flags. 2002-09-26 23:13:45 +00:00
gc.c * gc.c (vfs_ncs_getid): Merge with vfs_getid(). 2003-11-26 21:25:30 +00:00
gc.h * gc.c (vfs_ncs_getid): Merge with vfs_getid(). 2003-11-26 21:25:30 +00:00
local.c * vfs.h: Constify chdir() and opendir() methods. Adjust all 2003-11-13 08:29:37 +00:00
local.h * vfs.h: Remove typedef vfs, it's too ambiguous. Massive 2003-10-12 00:24:00 +00:00
mcfs.c * vfs.h: Constify chdir() and opendir() methods. Adjust all 2003-11-13 08:29:37 +00:00
mcfs.h Warning fixes. 2002-11-15 07:49:39 +00:00
mcfsutil.c Minor warning fix. 2002-11-15 17:06:46 +00:00
mcfsutil.h Comment change. 2002-10-05 01:54:20 +00:00
mcserv.c * mcserv.c: Use HAVE_CRYPT instead of USE_CRYPT. Remove 2004-01-22 08:44:20 +00:00
sfs.c * gc.c: Eliminate all code for timestamping parent filesystems. 2003-11-26 21:10:42 +00:00
smbfs.c * vfs.h: Constify chdir() and opendir() methods. Adjust all 2003-11-13 08:29:37 +00:00
smbfs.h Declare smbfs_set_debugf(). 2002-09-13 10:00:23 +00:00
tar.c * gc.c: Eliminate all code for timestamping parent filesystems. 2003-11-26 21:10:42 +00:00
tcputil.c * tcputil.c: Split mcfs-specific part to 2002-10-05 01:02:07 +00:00
tcputil.h * tcputil.c: Split mcfs-specific part to 2002-10-05 01:02:07 +00:00
undelfs.c Trivial patches from Andrew V. Samoilov <andrew@email.zp.ua> 2003-12-06 04:05:35 +00:00
utilvfs.c * vfs.c: Move all parsing code, vfs_die() and vfs_get_password() 2003-11-05 06:08:16 +00:00
utilvfs.h Remove redundant declaration of vfs_translate_url(). 2003-11-07 23:29:25 +00:00
vfs.c * gc.c (vfs_ncs_getid): Merge with vfs_getid(). 2003-11-26 21:25:30 +00:00
vfs.h * gc.c: Eliminate all code for timestamping parent filesystems. 2003-11-26 21:10:42 +00:00
xdirentry.h * vfs.c (vfs_split): Deconstify. 2003-11-14 08:25:50 +00:00

README

Hi!

I'm midnight commander's vfs layer. Before you start hacking me,
please read this file. I'm integral part of midnight commander, but I
try to go out and live my life myself as a shared library, too. That
means that I should try to use as little functions from midnight as
possible (so I'm tiny, nice and people like me), that I should not
pollute name space by unnecessary symbols (so I do not crash fellow
programs) and that I should have a clean interface between myself and
midnight.

Because I'm rather close to midnight, try to:

* Keep updating ChangeLog file.

* Keep the indentation as the rest of the code. Following could help
you with your friend emacs:

(defun mc-c-mode ()
	"C mode with adjusted defaults for use with the Midnight commander."
	(interactive)
	(c-mode)
	(c-set-style "K&R")
	(setq	c-indent-level 4
		c-continued-statement-offset 4
		c-brace-offset 0
		c-argdecl-indent 4
		c-label-offset -4
		c-brace-imaginary-offset 0
		c-continued-brace-offset 0
		c-tab-always-indent nil
		c-basic-offset 4
		tab-width 8
		comment-column 60))

(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '(".*/mc/.*\\.[ch]$" . mc-c-mode)
                       auto-mode-alist))

And because I'm trying to live life on my own as libvfs.so, try to:

* Make sure all exported symbols are defined in vfs.h and begin with
'vfs_'.

* Do not make any references from midnight into modules like tar. It
would probably pollute name space and midnight would depend on concrete
configuration of libvfs. mc_setctl() and mc_ctl() are your
friends. (And mine too :-).

							 Pavel Machek
							 pavel@ucw.cz

PS: If you'd like to use my features in whole operating system, you
might want to link me to rpc.nfsd. On
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/podfuk/podfuk.html you'll find
how to do it.

PPS: I have a friend, shared library called avfs, which is LD_PRELOAD
capable. You can reach her at http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs.