Using // to access file attributes
Using // to access file attributes
Posted Sep 2, 2004 12:50 UTC (Thu) by exco (guest, #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.
Posted Sep 2, 2004 13:55 UTC (Thu)
by elanthis (guest, #6227)
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Posted Sep 2, 2004 19:01 UTC (Thu)
by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)
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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.
Posted Sep 9, 2004 18:31 UTC (Thu)
by nobrowser (guest, #21196)
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Posted Sep 11, 2004 15:55 UTC (Sat)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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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
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
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. Using // to access file attributes
Apologize to RMS for implying Emacs is "badly written" :-)Using // to access file attributes
Using // to access file attributes