Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

Mo McKinlay
2001-01-19T16:08:30Z

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

> Oh, undoubtedly. But NTFS already disallows several characters in valid
> filenames. This also violates the "consistent abstract interface." But
> it's reality.

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.

Mo.

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