Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

Michael Rothwell
2001-01-19T16:14:10Z

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.