From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>
To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Carrying Attributes too Far
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:28:15 -0400 EDT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17778828065-BeMail@cr593174-a> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030918231747.50465.qmail@web60001.mail.yahoo.com>
Narcoleptic Electron wrote on Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:17:47 -0400 (EDT):
> Not really... "..." essentially contains the "system" part of the directory (i.e. like an API) whereas the rest is the "user" part. This is especially the case of "..." is hidden in the file browser. So only the "user" part would be localized.
Right, same thing for BeOS. Attribute names are in English no matter what.
> ",," just doesn't strike me the same way... if I had to choose something else, I would pick "!". It has a dot in it, which is nice, and it nods to Risc OS, which uses "!" as a special prefix. It doesn't seem to be reserved on Windows. (Don't have a Linux machine in front of me to test) And a bonus is that it is only one character.
No! Argh! It's a pain using file names with an ! in them, causes command history evaluation in various Unix shells. Would have to escape them when typing in file names, which makes it really awkward to use.
I'd go with ",," or even "," instead (if that's not used). Though that may make script files look even more like APL (a computer language using lots of Greek symbols rather than words). Or how about "_"? C programmers already use that for reserved system names.
- Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-19 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-11 15:14 Fwd: Re: Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-11 15:18 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-13 23:59 ` Carrying Attributes too Far (was Reiser4: "pseudo file namespace" suggestion) Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-14 1:56 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-14 3:46 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-14 3:53 ` Carrying Attributes too Far Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 4:21 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 3:39 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-14 4:21 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-16 19:15 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 17:14 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 18:08 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-18 20:16 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 20:31 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 21:44 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-18 22:00 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 22:28 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 22:42 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-18 23:06 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-18 23:17 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 23:23 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-18 23:28 ` Grant Miner
2003-09-19 0:29 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 0:28 ` Alexander G. M. Smith [this message]
2003-09-19 0:46 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-19 1:45 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 2:52 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 4:40 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 8:42 ` Martin Wilck
2003-09-19 13:27 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 15:13 ` Martin Wilck
2003-09-19 15:35 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 15:48 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-19 13:20 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 13:46 ` Bennett Todd
2003-09-19 19:31 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-19 22:51 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-20 1:31 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-22 15:53 ` Attribute Directory Name (Was: Carrying Attributes too Far) Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-22 20:02 ` Narcoleptic Electron
2003-09-22 22:52 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-22 13:28 ` Carrying Attributes too Far lrc1
2003-09-22 22:50 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-23 1:21 ` lrc1
2003-09-23 22:48 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-09-24 16:57 ` lrc1
2003-09-24 9:35 ` Hans Reiser
2003-09-24 17:52 ` lrc1
2003-09-24 19:37 ` Hubert Chan
2003-09-25 3:40 ` Hans Reiser
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-04 5:58 lrc1
2003-10-04 18:17 ` Alexander G. M. Smith
2003-10-04 20:10 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-03 19:18 ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-05 0:30 ` lrc1
2003-12-05 5:27 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-05 12:38 ` Hans Reiser
2003-12-06 23:33 ` lrc1
2003-12-07 2:48 ` Hubert Chan
2003-12-07 17:08 ` Hans Reiser
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