Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, Stallman,

Mark H. Wood (mwood@iupui.edu)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:46:07 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Bill Huey wrote:
> The BeOS file system has a directory inode pointer within it's inode
> structure definition. The unused parts of the inode end being used
> as a high speed property/attribute list, while the directory inode
> pointer thing is use for the attribute overflow.

Wow, Files-11 ODS2 rides again...

> It's quite nifty and is useful for stuff like making a strong MIME type
> determination without any regard to the unclarity of using file suffixes.

...including syntax tagging. Cool.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
Specializing in unusual perspectives for more than twenty years.




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