Alexander Viro wrote:
> Bingo! So there I am, saying rename("foo:sheesh", "bar:sheesh");
> Look, mommy - I've got this strange "bar" thing I wasn't asking for!
> That's precisely the same problem that started this subthread - weird side
> effects on the namespace. I can tell you that it is a fucking hell to deal
> with. BTDT.
How about, "look mommy, I'm still acting like
a file with streams is a directory!"
Would it make sense for a more traditional file attribute,
lets say "sticky" for instace, to exist independant of a
file? Why does it make sense for an extended attribute to?
It doesn't. Why does it then make sense for generalized
extended attributes -- named streams -- to exist independant
of files?
> I can tell you that it is a fucking hell to deal
> with. BTDT.
I'm sure that, with enough effort, they can be.
-M
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