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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!kalessin From: Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <31631142.59EBBBEF@netcom.com> Sender: kalessin@netcom11.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> <4jnvb4$608@floyd.sw.oz.au> <31608939.342B2F46@netcom.com> <DpAGp3.3tD@pe1chl.ampr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 00:01:06 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i486) Lines: 24 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:20775 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16754 > >Fine. But how will you represent the icon for a directory? If you do it by using the syntax > >"<filename>/.icon", then what would we do if such a file already exists? (i.e., say there is an > >application called "icon" -- yes, one does exist -- that creates a file in the user's home directory > >called ".icon"). Unless the kernel steps in to help, we get a major namespace problem. > > Who cares about the user's home directory? > Of course each file would have its own "directory" where these attributes > would be stored, and there is no problem with files having the same name > in another directory. > > I.e. when there is an application /usr/bin/icon with an attribute > /usr/bin/icon/.icon, of course there can still be a /home/user/.icon, > why not?? But where will you store the icon for the directory "/home/user/"???? It would be stored in /home/user/.icon, according to you. But what if that file already exists, and has text data (as opposed to a pixmap). -- Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> Website ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/ka/kalessin/adam.html Linux - OS/2