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From: "Joel C. Salomon" <joelcsalomon@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 9/3/07, Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:
> Disgusting indeed, but it might even work with no changes to 9P; it
> might confuse some clients, but doesn't sound easily doable given some
> basic naming conventions (of course, then you lose the possibility to
> cd into that dir and run ls there, which is the main reason I thought
> an extension to the file name would make more sense)

You don't want to run ls, remember.  The point of this exercise is to
conceptually add some form of metadata to files.  All that's needed
(if that!) is a set of attribute=value pairs, which can all be kept in
a single 'file' with a known name and predetermined format.  (Or a
database with multiple file-like 'views', so meta.txt, meta.csv, and
meta.xml are all available.  Ick.)

--Joel