[openbeos] Re: Expander's behaviour (was: unrar)


Am 05.02.2005 um 22:47 schrieb Jonas Sundström:

Michael Pfeiffer <michael.pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 ...

It should be trivial to make ZIP-FS Mount do
in-place mounting
...
Indeed. But adding attribute support has a higher priority. 

But which is the least work? ;)

With the limited time I have, I have to set priorities :(

BTW if someone wants to improve it, the source code
is available by request.

Each mounted zip-file also creates a folder
below /boot/var/tmp/zipfs,
... 
This is the place of the file cache. When you open
a file (or better when it is read), its contents is
extracted there.


zipfs_server runs unzip?

The first version executed unzip, but under some circumstance this lead to a dead lock and BeOS halted.

Now it has the ZipInfo version of unzip statically linked to avoid this problem.

- Michael


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