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 11:14:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:13:51 -0500 Received: from mail.rd.ilan.net ([216.27.80.130]:10756 "EHLO mail.rd.ilan.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:13:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6867B1.C4818A70@holly-springs.nc.us> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:13:37 -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: > Nono, that's not what I mean - each of the filesystems fails if it > doesn't support what you're trying to do, that's given - but having a > different delimeter registered by the filesystem (and hence the > possibility of every single filesystem using a different delimeter) brings > about a completely different kind of inconsistency. True. Which is why I'd prefer a standard delimiter. ":" seems to be the top candidate. - 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/