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From: "roger peppe" <rogpeppe@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] unique identity to virtual files
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:55:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <df49a7370801150755n739fd7ceoce771bce677349fa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080115143538.0E9A81E8C1C@holo.morphisms.net>

On Jan 15, 2008 2:35 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> the usual answer is "don't do that."

which i agree with, but assuming you *are* doing that:

> using the uid/gid would make the most sense to me,
> in that it would be the least unexpected.

or maybe even muid, as very little uses it, and
in some sense perhaps the synthetic filesystem
is the last thing that modified the (appearance of) the
original file. the original muid isn't necessarily lost,
as files within the synthetic directory could hold
the original.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-15 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-15 13:09 Steve Simon
2008-01-15 13:20 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-15 14:35 ` Russ Cox
2008-01-15 15:55   ` roger peppe [this message]
2008-01-15 16:29 ` Gary Wright
2008-01-15 17:21   ` Charles Forsyth

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