Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

Mo McKinlay
2001-01-19T16:35:13Z

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Today, Michael Rothwell (rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us) wrote:

> 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.

I would too, but POSIX won't let us unless we start enforcing side-effect
rules for all filesystems. Hence why I came up with openstream() :)

Mo.

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