Re: Integrating support for GNOME VFS into glibc

[Per Kristian Gjermshus <pergj ping uio no>]

Nicholas Allen wrote:

> I think it would be great if GNOME VFS support could be integrated into glibc. 
> This would allow existing applications to make use of GNOME VFS without 
> needing to be modified or even recompiled. Thus in bash I could 'cd 
> http://slashdot.org' for 
> example.
>
> There are a number of ways of doing this. One would be to obverride the 
> required libc functions (open, read etc)  and use LD_PRELOAD to override 
> them. I tried this solution but my overridden functions are never called for 
> some reason (may be I am doing something wrong?).
>
> Another approach would be to hack it directly into the glibc source code and 
> add a configure option for it.
>
> What do you think of this idea? I suggested this idea to the glibc maintainers 
> and Richard Stallman thought it would be a good idea to contact this list as 
> well.
>
> Anyone like this idea or can anyone see any reasons why it wouldn't be 
> feasable.
I liked it so much at one point that I did a proof of concept 
implementation. Nothing more happened though. See this link:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-vfs-list/2002-December/msg00123.html

Per Kristian