From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:05:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:05:09 -0500 Received: from mail.rd.ilan.net ([216.27.80.130]:6148 "EHLO mail.rd.ilan.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:04:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3A686599.470272D6@holly-springs.nc.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:04:41 -0500 From: Michael Rothwell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mo McKinlay CC: Peter Samuelson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mo McKinlay wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Today, Michael Rothwell (rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us) wrote: > > > The filesystem, when registering that it supports the "named streams" > > namespace, could specify its preferred delimiter to the VFS as well. > > Ext4 could use /directory/file/stream, and NTFS could use > > /directory/file:stream. > > Erk - nice from a programming point of view, horrible from a consistency > one. The nice thing about VFS is that it provides a consistent abstract > interface - I'd place a small amount of money on the fact that Al Viro > would probably flame you to high heaven for that last suggestion if he was > paying much attention to this thread :-) Oh, undoubtedly. But NTFS already disallows several characters in valid filenames. This also violates the "consistent abstract interface." But it's reality. -M - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/