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physfs-2.0.1-1ark.src.rpm

Description:

PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives. It is
intended for use in video games, and the design was somewhat inspired by
Quake 3's file subsystem.

The programmer defines a "write directory" on the physical filesystem. No file
writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that write directory, for
security.

For example, an embedded scripting language cannot write outside of this path if
it uses PhysFS for all of its I/O, which means that untrusted scripts can run
more safely.

Symbolic links can be disabled as well, for added safety. For file reading, the
programmer lists directories and archives that form a "search path". Once the
search path is defined, it becomes a single, transparent hierarchical filesystem.
This makes for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you access a file
directly on the disk, and it makes it easy to ship a new archive that will
override a previous archive on a per-file basis.

Finally, PhysicsFS gives you platform-abstracted means to determine if CD-ROMs
are available, the user's home directory, where in the real filesystem your
program is running, etc.

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