MODPROBE: next generation

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:58:04PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:

>We already have open_transformer(), so you just call
>
>fd = open_transformer(gzfile_fd, unpack_gz_stream, "gunzip");
>
>and voila - you can gunzip file on the fly :)

Can we have a libunarchival wrapper that sets up open_transformer for
us, depending on supported decompressors and file-extension (see
depmod.c for the FIXME) ?

tar already has such a thing, ISTR.. perhaps generalize that