Re: Meta files for files without new interfaces

[Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>]

Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:43:12AM +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
>
> > As a way to avoid new interfaces for dealing with properties, we can use
> > the empty file name "".  So `cat index.html//mime/content-type' would 
> > print `text/html'. 
>
> We can't, for many reasons.  For one, the empty filename is used in the
> Hurd protocol already for other stuff (I don't remember for what).


There was a discussion about some bugs in processing empty file names 
but while reading it i didn't notice the special nature of these file names.


> Second, this conflicts directly with POSIX, which says that // is
> converterted to / on all lookups.

I didn't know that requirement of POSIX.  I thought the semantics of // 
is just undefined in POSIX :-/  IMHO using concepts like files and 
directories for handling metainfo will make these abilities more popular.

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Ognyan Kulev <ogi@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>, "\"Programmer\""