Re: NTFS-like streams?

From: Mo McKinlay (mmckinlay@gnu.org)
Date: Mon Aug 14 2000 - 08:13:20 EST


# But its not a file either, so if you can opendir it why cant you make it
# your cwd.

IIRC people said that you should specifically NOT be able to
opendir() it. Being able to opendir() something that isn't a directory is
just as weird as being able to chdir() to it.

-- 
Mo McKinlay             Chief Software Architect          inter/open Labs
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