On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:26:21PM -0800, The Amazing Dragon wrote:
> May I suggest "//" instead? This is much better for a couple reasons.
> First "/" by itself is already a magic character, and so this doesn't
> annoy people by stopping them from creating files with certain names;
> same for programs. Second this is usable on directories, ie a file "bar"
> inside a directory "foo" ("foo/bar") is distinct from an attribute "bar"
> on the directory ("foo//bar").So that 'mv /mp3dir/* //newmp3dir' will add my MP3s as attributes to '/'? <sarcasm> I LOVE IT! </sarcasm> I would rather see a useful rich file format API, and a userspace filesystem implementation before I see that kind of dinking on reiserfs. I get enough joy from coders neglecting to quote filenames in shell scripts as it is. I'm afraid that sanity checking the file before tacking on the path to the attributes is beyond their abilities. -- Chris Dukes "Bert is apparently EEEEVIL, whereas Oscar is just a sysadmin^Wgrouch." -- gorski
