On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 08:03:03PM -0500, Steve French via samba-technical wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 5:37 PM Al Viro via samba-technical > > > > Better yet, you need some new objects to represent those things, since > > you don't want any informative dentries. And not fs-private ones, at > > that, since those new syscalls of yours would have to operate on them > > (after all, renaming something opened would probably be expected to > > have the opened descriptor to keep accessing the same object, wouldn't > > it?) > > These are interesting questions, and there are cases where streams > have been shown to have value in Windows, and for Apple (in Macs). > Don't know whether the Solaris equivalent was useful - but presumably > was. Sorry Steve, can't let this pass :-). Please name *one* case where streams have value in Windows or Mac. And I'm not talking about the case for EA's, these clearly have value (plus we already have them :-). I'm talking about a case where there is clear value in having an openable/seekable stream on a file/directory. I can't think of a *single* case where a stream adds more utility than an EA used in the same case. I don't want theoretical "well it would be nice if..", I want clear "we couldn't have done it any other way" kinds of things.
