From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P2000 question From: "rob pike" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-wypgvuoxrqmpfmxbxxiaphapse" Message-Id: <20010724201759.073F8199F3@mail.cse.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 16:17:56 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d5e5ed3e-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-wypgvuoxrqmpfmxbxxiaphapse Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If it's just between you and the server, go for it. The protocol will leave them alone. -rob --upas-wypgvuoxrqmpfmxbxxiaphapse Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Tue Jul 24 15:33:27 EDT 2001 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Tue Jul 24 15:33:26 EDT 2001 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.8.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id EBDF5199F1; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:33:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from real.com (prognet.com [205.219.198.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 6D23E199EF for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:32:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from skipt ([172.21.104.107]) by real.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) with SMTP id MAA17955 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20010724124313.013e2c60@mail.real.com> X-Sender: skipt@mail.real.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Fariborz 'Skip' Tavakkolian" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: [9fans] 9P2000 question Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:43:13 -0700 How are additional (ad-hoc or not currently accounted for) file attributes added to the filesystem? In re-reading the stat/wstat description for 9P2000 there does not seem to be a provision for that. What I think would be useful is to have additional attributes which may be filesystem specific and that only certain application may care to know about, etc. --upas-wypgvuoxrqmpfmxbxxiaphapse--