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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:22:27 -0700
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] everything is a directory
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I just read this great article: http://www.linux.com/articles/114027

This quote says it all: "By the time you finish reading this article,
you will be able to take advantage of the coolest file system feature
to be implemented since the symbolic link.  - CLI Magic: Use Extended
Attributes for better file management By Ryan Paul"

So, I guess he's right. We need to get this in to plan 9. The system
calls should not be too hard to add, and then we can bring the
programs over. Anyone want to do it? We could even implement the
symlinks as a kind of extended attribute.

ron