>From: Rob Bogus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>As someone who does not use Linux, I would say it is not the user's
>>fault. When that bit is set, it means the first extent is Macintosh
>>resource fork data. That bit was put into the standard specifically
>>for that purpose. Linux should make it _extremely_ difficult to
>>handle an extent flagged in that fashion as anything but a resource
>>fork (and Linux likely has no use for a resource fork except when
>>serving files to Macintoshes).
>>
>>
>The user deliberately selected an option to make those forks visible.
>Linux doesn't (deliberately) make things dificult, it just makes the
>default safe in most cases, and allows you to make a choice. If you ask
>to see the fork you can't complain that the fork is visible.
Solaris does support extended attributes and could be made able to
make the files visible in a decent way ;-)
Jörg
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