Using // to access file attributes
Using // to access file attributes
Posted Sep 2, 2004 13:55 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (guest, #6227)In reply to: Using // to access file attributes by exco
Parent article: More notes on reiser4
Or just use a different system call, which makes sense, since we *already* have a system calls for file-system attributes...
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.
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