Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

Mo McKinlay
2001-01-19T14:20:46Z

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

> Unfortunately, unix allows everything but "/" in filenames. This was
> probably a mistake, as it makes it nearly impossible to augment the
> namespace, but it is the reality.

> Did you read the "new namespace" section of the paper?

I've not, so pardon me if I make a bad assumption (and slap me for it,
too), but doesn't introducing a new namespace segregate the streams from
the files/directories, thus introducing an artifical separation which
isn't really there? (Pretty much why I'm more in favour of a specific API
for reading streams, extended attributes and whatnot, over any of the
other solutions thus suggested).

Mo.

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