> > Others might suggest accessing streams, resource forks or extended > > attributes through such an interface. However this patch only deals > > with the non-directory case, so directories would be excluded from > > that interface. > > here's a possibly stupid question. What about symlinks to dirs? namely > the shells tend to treat them differently if postfixed with a slash or not. Right. So it only works on non-directory, non-symlink objects. Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html