Re: rollover translator

[Bas Wijnen]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    I don't think we care about POSIX at all here.  If Alfred wants to
>    write a translator which is totally non-POSIX, he should be free to
>    do so.
>
> What I meant was that we can disregard POSIX aslong as programs
> reading/writting from the file work as expected.  And as far as I can
> tell, POSIX doesn't even come into play here, atleast with how I am
> thinking of implementing it.

Being as much POSIX as possible is nice of course, but as long as 
redirection works (which doesn't really affect the output-generation 
program at all), I wouldn't really care how non-POSIX it is.

> Oh, and nobody commented about the important bit, how should the
> translator should be set. :-)

Oh, I thought that was sortof implicit.  ;-)

If you implement read and write as I suggested, using the underlying 
inode seems to be the only logical option for me.  If for any reason 
read cannot be used to get the contents of the last part of the written 
data, then using the link construct makes sense.

Thanks,
Bas

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