On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Bodo Eggert wrote:
alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I just wish that people would learn from the mistakes of others. The
MacOS is a prime example of why you do not want to use a forked
filesystem, yet some people still seem to think it is a good idea.
(Forked filesystems tend to be fragile and do not play well with
non-forked filesystems.)
What's the conceptual difference between forks and extended user attributes?
Forks tend to contain more than just extended attributes. They contain
all sorts of other meta-data including icons, descriptions, author
information, copyright data, and whatever else can be shoveled into them
by the author/user.
--
"ANSI C says access to the padding fields of a struct is undefined.
ANSI C also says that struct assignment is a memcpy. Therefore struct
assignment in ANSI C is a violation of ANSI C..."
- Alan Cox
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