Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> [snip]
> > you may think the /$/ is ugly, but its not nearly as ugly
> > as recoding how many commands with additional options and parallel
> > universe system calls -- if we wanted that we could join microsoft
> > (i.e., a different set of open/close/read/write calls for each file type)
If the feature to allow e.g. "/$/" may be disabled at shell level (for the
shell only), I see no problem.
> I agree with that. It seems the XATTR support Solaris in it's current
> version is not integrateable into any shell (and the original patch is
> incomplete as many stuff breaks into pieces (the idea of PWD=. breaks
> too much stuff)).
This is not true.
> The XATTR files need to be accessible from the normal filesystem
> namespace (e.g. each file needs a proper parent (even if this is a file,
> but that does not hurt as seen in Reiser4 :-) )), otherwise the shell
> can only access them via weired helper applications.
I strongly object this idea.
XATTRs do not belong in the same namespace as filenames and what Reiser4 does
is just a result of the limited Linux development model. Note that you may
_add_ anything to Linux but you will not be able to force all other
programmers to modify their code in order to allow a better and more orthogonal
behavior. For this reason, every implementor tries to find a way to implement
all
features in his own project. This development model sucks....
J?rg
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