From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:55:13 +0000 From: "roger peppe" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] unique identity to virtual files In-Reply-To: <20080115143538.0E9A81E8C1C@holo.morphisms.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080115143538.0E9A81E8C1C@holo.morphisms.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2e9197ae-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Jan 15, 2008 2:35 PM, Russ Cox 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.