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#! rnews 2275 bsd Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!mail2news.alias.net!myriad!mylinuxbox!suck!netcom.com!kalessin From: Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.ping.at> Message-ID: <31608823.39212352@netcom.com> Sender: kalessin@netcom3.netcom.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <4hptj4$cf4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <3140C968.20699696@netcom.com> <4ilgto$861@floyd.sw.oz.au> <4j6if4$15gk@news.missouri.edu> <315834CD.7C4DA6C7@netcom.com> <4jc6q5$bgd@josie.abo.fi> <315B0727.70172281@netcom.com> <wska042okz.fsf@orcus.ping.at> <315CA0A1.6C5C9796@netcom.com> <ws20masr11.fsf@orcus.ping.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 01:51:31 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i486) Lines: 38 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:20652 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16622 Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > Hi, > > I wrote: > > >> Why would you throw the directory bit away? Keep it as a hint, > >> that this object is really and only a directory. ls -F will give > >> you "foo/", etc. > > >>>>> In article <315CA0A1.6C5C9796@netcom.com>, > >>>>> Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> writes: > > Adam> But then who is going to set that bit?! The user? That's a pain > Adam> in the butt to keep fooling with. > > You're doing it every day: > > mkdir sets the diretory bit, > anything that operates on files does not. > > modifyea -t icon < icon.source foo Not to sound rude, but your whole posting is off-topic. We were discussing "what if there were no differences between files and directories; every directory was a file, and vice versa". EA's are an altenative method for implementing the same information. However, my arguments were specifically for the "non-EA, but every file is also a directory" approach. - Adam -- Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> Website ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ka/kalessin/adam.html Linux - OS/2