Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives

[Giuliano Pochini]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Spam wrote:

>   Well. wasn't the idea that unless programs specifically tried to
>   open the file-as-dir as a directory it would look like a file?
>
>   ls -F would show it as file. Or have I understood wrong?

Yes, otherwise apps that do

if (S_ISDIR()) {
	..
} else if (S_ISREG()) {
	..
}

would behave differently from apps that check the file in
different order, and they would probably break because in
a regular fs that order is not important. The goal is to
keep the semantic changes as hidden as possible for apps
that don't know about the new features.


--
Giuliano.
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