Ben Fennema wrote:
> Is there some kind of future plan for a common 'fork' access methidology?
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> can I do something like inode->u.udf_i->streamdir = iget(stream dir ino num)
> then, using ioctl calls on the file, access the files in streamdir?
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> (Keep using the kernel functionallity to acces
Ben Fennema wrote:
> Well, theres a few other pain in the butt things to consider.
> One, I have to keep track of the file sizes of all the files in the streams
> directory (there is a record of the total size of the main file + all
> streams) I guess I'd need a link from the stream file to the ma
Jamie Lokier wrote:
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> Ben Fennema wrote:
> > My first question is, CAN I actually use lookup and readdir on a file
> > (Is it ls being too smart by looking at the thing, deceiding its not a
> > directory, and giving up -- or is it the kernel?)
>
> The kernel will more or less do what you ask,
Alexander Viro wrote:
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> On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Ben Fennema wrote:
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> > Ok, I'm trying to implement streams in UDF.
> > They are kind of like resource forks/extended attributes.
>
> And our support of 'forks' is a bloody mess (as the whole idea of forks
> is - what can you expect from Cra
Ben Fennema wrote:
> My first question is, CAN I actually use lookup and readdir on a file
> (Is it ls being too smart by looking at the thing, deceiding its not a
> directory, and giving up -- or is it the kernel?)
The kernel will more or less do what you ask, though Alex Viro's
concerns are val
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Ben Fennema wrote:
> Ok, I'm trying to implement streams in UDF.
> They are kind of like resource forks/extended attributes.
And our support of 'forks' is a bloody mess (as the whole idea of forks
is - what can you expect from Crapple?). _Please_, wait with it until
the dc
Ok, I'm trying to implement streams in UDF.
They are kind of like resource forks/extended attributes.
Anyways, how they work is a inode has a pointer to a streams directory,
which contains all the streams for the inode as files in the directory.
So like:
FILE ---> stream dir
Stre
