From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] [Fwd: road sign]
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:52:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60510102252y6e10ca4ejb50e6db1897cb697@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BBFE8564-57E3-40B5-AAE7-574AE8DF8A0B@corpus-callosum.com>
> >
> > No, but the RFCs never really covered correct handling of 'forked'
> > binary files (such as those found on Macs).
>
> Thankfully, even Apple on OS X has slowly gone away from the blasted
> Resource Forks. Sure, you can still use them (if you're Adobe), but
> none of the Cocoa or CoreFoundation APIs go out and encourage to
> resource forks any more.
No but the whole OS pretty much relies on storing things in extended
attributes now. Even the resource forks can be found there now. [I
believe this is also where ACLs are stored but don't quote me on this]
Why does a file need to be like a directory? Isn't that what
directories are for? :)
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-11 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-10 3:57 Ronald G Minnich
2005-10-10 19:52 ` Russ Cox
2005-10-11 1:56 ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-11 2:34 ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-11 2:49 ` Chris Collins
2005-10-11 3:05 ` Jeff Sickel
2005-10-11 5:52 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2005-10-11 7:11 ` Chris Collins
2005-10-11 8:05 ` leimy2k
2005-10-11 7:25 ` Uriel
2005-10-11 10:05 ` erik quanstrom
2005-10-13 2:09 ` Jeff Sickel
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