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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:47:30 +0000
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Subject: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory
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On Aug 20, 1:48 am, "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAG...@null.net> wrote:
> "erik quanstrom" <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote in message
>
> news:198ff93d3223123a0e103cbcc4755bc4@quanstro.net...
>
> > hey, how do you grep for stuff in extended attributes?
>
> grep -@, assuming that grep has been extended like other utilities (tar,
> etc.)
>
> One would have thought that a better design would have been
>     /path/file/.attributes/...
> Who makes these decisions, anyway??

Putting attributes in the same namespace as files introduces a whole
new problem -- just as storing ownership in foo/.owners would.