From: Robert Ransom <rransom.8774@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] files vs. directories
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:30:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110203193007.68f3c8a6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb9c794f193c0fd2c1e34953289c77e9@brasstown.quanstro.net>
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:49:17 -0500
erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > FreeBSD 8.0 lets you cat the raw data of a directory, and I would
> > expect the other free BSDs to have that misfeature, too.
>
> i don't see how allowing this is a misfeature. regardless,
> plan 9 allows it.
>
> ; sha1sum < /adm/timezone
> 05d16cd216a58fae746ae36f72c784d10bcc1392
It felt like a misfeature every time I dumped raw directory entries to
my terminal, and I didn't think of a good use like your example.
This feature might be more useful if the directory entries were
presented to clients of the FS in a textual format, but that would
encourage, if not require, far more parsing in the system, and that is
bad both for performance and for security.
Robert Ransom
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-04 3:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-03 11:45 dexen deVries
2011-02-03 13:05 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 13:40 ` dexen deVries
2011-02-03 13:59 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 13:36 ` roger peppe
2011-02-03 13:40 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 13:44 ` dexen deVries
2011-02-03 14:15 ` roger peppe
2011-02-03 14:27 ` dexen deVries
2011-02-03 18:42 ` smiley
2011-02-03 22:33 ` dexen deVries
2011-02-04 1:42 ` Robert Ransom
2011-02-04 1:49 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-04 3:30 ` Robert Ransom [this message]
2011-02-04 4:11 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-02-04 4:17 ` andrey mirtchovski
2011-02-04 5:36 ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-03 14:35 ` dexen deVries
2011-02-03 16:58 ` Bakul Shah
2011-02-03 23:13 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2011-02-04 0:24 ` smiley
2011-02-04 0:45 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-02-04 1:29 ` Nick LaForge
2011-02-04 18:26 Lucio De Re
2011-02-04 18:28 Lucio De Re
2011-02-04 18:31 Lucio De Re
2011-02-04 18:41 ` Lucio De Re
2011-08-21 17:33 ` Enrico Weigelt
2011-02-04 18:38 Lucio De Re
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