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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!goliath.apana.org.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!fdn.fr!med.univ-tours.fr!news.univ-angers.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Date: 19 Mar 1996 12:59:58 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4imb4e$oii@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <4h7t5i$qoh@park.uvsc.edu> <314A470D.CCE53F0@netcom.com> <4ifob7$otg@gidora.kralizec.net.au> <314C89B0.6673E487@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:19650 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15653 In article <314C89B0.6673E487@netcom.com>, Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> wrote: > like thus: If you made a call to the kernel requesting to open the > following file > /usr/bin/groff//filetype > > the kernel would return to you a stream containing the "filetype" EA on > the file "/usr/bin/groff". In other words, let's keep the existing file > access commands - just extend the syntax of a pathname to include EA's I'm afraid using "//" inside a pathname will violate POSIX in the sense that the multiple "/" should be ignored. The only case that is implementation dependent is at the beginning of the filename (i.e. //foo/bar). [[ cc'ed to Adam ]] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-