From: "Robert Sherwood" <robert.sherwood@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] everything is a directory
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:37:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d846ee8c0708161237j1647f361kbc1d3af0a831d0cb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10708161201n7e138e3clef65e75ab23113f@mail.gmail.com>
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I'm confused. Is it the concept that's awful, or the implimentation? Is the
problem that visibiliby of the attributes to tools is inconsistant and
they're managed with entirely different symantics? Or is the whole idea of
arbitrary file attributes a tool of the devil?
Certainly, some file formats (I'm thinking of MP3) use file attributes to
great effect, though of course they're specially implemented in the context
of the files' use case. Is it appropriate to implement a general file
tagging capability that is file independant and managed by the OS?
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2007-08-16 9:30 jsnx
2007-08-16 10:42 ` maht
2007-08-16 11:47 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-08-17 8:41 ` [9fans] " jsnx
2007-08-16 12:39 ` [9fans] " Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-08-16 14:01 ` David Leimbach
2007-08-16 14:39 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-16 15:58 ` maht
2007-08-16 17:45 ` David Leimbach
2007-08-16 19:01 ` ron minnich
2007-08-16 19:37 ` Robert Sherwood [this message]
2007-08-16 20:49 ` David Leimbach
2007-08-17 8:42 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-08-17 13:00 ` ron minnich
2007-08-17 13:24 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-17 13:35 ` plan9
2007-08-17 14:22 ` ron minnich
2007-08-17 14:29 ` David Leimbach
2007-08-17 14:29 ` Richard Miller
2007-08-17 14:49 ` ron minnich
2007-08-17 17:49 ` David Leimbach
2007-08-17 18:09 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-08-20 8:48 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-08-20 8:48 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-08-20 14:29 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-08-20 14:53 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-08-20 15:02 ` Rob Pike
2007-08-21 8:48 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-08-21 8:47 ` [9fans] " jsnx
2007-08-21 8:47 ` jsnx
2007-08-23 8:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-08-24 8:39 ` jsnx
2007-08-29 9:06 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-08-30 8:35 ` jsnx
2007-08-30 13:18 ` David Leimbach
2007-08-31 9:07 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-08-31 18:04 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-09-01 12:07 ` Uriel
2007-09-02 1:11 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-09-02 2:14 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-02 5:01 ` Anthony Martin
2007-09-02 13:00 ` Uriel
2007-09-02 16:53 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-09-03 7:50 ` Uriel
2007-09-03 16:40 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-09-03 19:51 ` Uriel
2007-09-09 21:41 ` roger peppe
2007-09-03 9:27 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-09-03 11:03 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-08-17 14:27 ` [9fans] " David Leimbach
2007-08-17 4:11 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-08-17 8:42 ` [9fans] " jsnx
2007-08-17 13:25 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-17 0:39 ` [9fans] " Uriel
2007-08-17 8:59 ` matt
2007-08-17 12:05 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-20 8:47 ` [9fans] " jsnx
2007-08-20 9:00 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-08-20 11:34 ` Tom Lieber
2007-08-20 11:40 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-20 13:33 ` Uriel
2007-08-20 17:36 ` Paweł Lasek
2007-08-20 18:26 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-20 18:48 ` Paweł Lasek
2007-08-20 19:52 ` Dave Eckhardt
2007-08-20 21:28 ` Robert William Fuller
2007-08-20 21:40 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-20 22:05 ` Robert William Fuller
2007-08-21 11:29 ` Brantley Coile
2007-08-21 17:54 ` Robert Raschke
2007-08-22 7:38 ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-08-20 22:12 ` David Leimbach
2007-08-21 0:37 ` dave.l
2007-08-21 1:14 ` David Leimbach
2007-08-21 1:25 ` Uriel
2007-08-21 1:44 ` David Leimbach
2007-08-21 8:48 ` app
2007-08-22 8:47 ` jsnx
2007-08-22 9:54 ` app
2007-08-22 11:22 ` roger peppe
2007-08-22 11:30 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-23 8:49 ` jsnx
2007-08-21 1:26 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2007-08-21 1:28 ` Uriel
2007-08-22 8:47 ` jsnx
2007-08-20 21:57 ` Uriel
2007-08-20 22:08 ` Robert William Fuller
2007-08-21 8:48 ` jsnx
2007-08-20 11:17 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-20 17:40 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2007-08-20 17:52 ` Uriel
2007-08-23 8:49 ` jsnx
2007-08-23 10:35 ` Steve Simon
2007-08-24 8:40 ` jsnx
2007-08-24 8:57 ` Martin Neubauer
2007-08-24 10:55 ` David Leimbach
2007-09-06 4:06 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2007-08-29 9:06 ` jsnx
2007-08-30 1:41 ` Uriel
2007-09-06 5:06 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2007-08-29 9:06 ` jsnx
2007-08-23 15:29 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-08-21 8:48 ` jsnx
2007-08-21 11:22 ` Uriel
2007-08-21 15:05 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-08-20 8:48 ` [9fans] " Douglas A. Gwyn
2007-08-17 8:42 ` [9fans] " jsnx
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