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Using // to access file attributesUsing // to access file attributesPosted Sep 2, 2004 12:50 UTC (Thu) by exco (subscriber, #4344)Parent article: More notes on reiser4
Whatever is choosen to access file attributes it will broke some application. So why use // ?
CREDITS//gid
It sure will broke badly written application but it does not remove usable filename possibilities.
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Using // to access file attributes Posted Sep 2, 2004 13:55 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227) [Link] Or just use a different system call, which makes sense, since we *already* have a system calls for file-system attributes...
Using // to access file attributes Posted Sep 2, 2004 19:01 UTC (Thu) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link] Because if you can just use a special syntax to acess the extended attributes, that makes them immediately accessible to the shell, scripts of various types, and programs that don't know how to access the attributes natively.
For example, clearcase is a (commercial) version control system. It implements something like this by allowing you to append @@ to any file within it and from there see all the versions and branches that are available. This is very powerful, as you can do things like using tab completion in BASH, direct scripting, etc. It's very nice.
Using // to access file attributes Posted Sep 9, 2004 18:31 UTC (Thu) by nobrowser (guest, #21196) [Link] Apologize to RMS for implying Emacs is "badly written" :-)
Using // to access file attributes Posted Sep 11, 2004 15:55 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] There are no need: RMS freely admit there are a lot of cruft in Emacs and there are plans to reimplement everything in more sane ways for few years now .
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