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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:22:34 +0200
From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: everything is a directory
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On 8/21/07, jsnx <jason.dusek@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2:01 am, n...@lsub.org (Francisco J Ballesteros) wrote:
> > Do you prefer embedding the "face" in each mail as metadata instead of
> > keeping a faces db?
>
> That doesn't have anything to do with my point about icons for window
> managers, since mail messages are not files, generally speaking.

upasfs(4) In Plan 9 everything is a file (server).

And that is one more reason why extended attributes make no sense in
Plan 9, because if you need them it means you have not done a good job
designing your file server interface.

uriel