David A. Gatwood wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > Justin R. Smith wrote:
> > > 1. How does one access ordinary Macintosh files?  I noticed a command
> > > mount_dos. Is there a corresponding operation for Macintosh files?
> > 
> > Not yet.  Everyone who has done work on Unix-based HFS support seems to
> > have put it under the GPL, as a result, we don't have anything like that
> > in the kernel.  However, there is an excellent set of utilities you can
> > download and compile for this purpose, called the hfsutils.  I don't seem
> > to have a copy of the URL at the moment, but I guess I should find it and
> > add it to the FAQ....
> 
> There's an old one on puma, tho there are probably many newer versions.
> 
> Any chance of HFS support in an lkm?  I believe somebody said that would
> get around the GPL issues.

Bill Studenmund and someone else who I can't remember at the moment worked
on an implementation of hfsfs(?) as an LKM sometime last year, I think.
However, I don't know what the final status of it was.  Bill?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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