Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:47:23 +0100 (BST)


> No good: as soon as you export such a directory over NFS to a non-Linux
> box, the client will not be able to read the data. Systems like Gnome
> and KDE are not restricted to running on Linux only.

The fork stuff isnt relevant or useful to things like KDE and Gnome. Not
unless you want to get into per user forks dependant on environmental
settings and with override and defaults on top of it. Then quota the lot
and handle writable settings on a CDROM based program..

No that way lies madness

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