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Sounds entirely reasonable. Hans Feuer wrote: > > > Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > > In message <199810052000.QAA26886@valhalla.cc.columbia.edu>, "Johan M. > > Andersen > > " writes: > > +----- > > | > At first sight this may look like a proposal to bloat the Unix file > > | > system. But the filetype info really belongs into each directory > > | > entry, because > > | > > | Are you sure it belongs in the directory entry and not the inode? Can two > > | links to the same file have different types? > > +--->8 > > > > It'd be one way to allow a file to be "opened" in multiple ways. I'd prefer > > multiple registrations and a WPS-style "Open As" myself.... > > Hmmmm..... Don't like that much. WPS? What's that?. But if someone ever figures > out per-user metadata, this would be a good use. > > <asbestos suit> > I think it would be nice if I could do something to temporarily consider a certain > file to have a certain type. In reiserfs style (as I understand it), this might > look something like > > display random-image.gif/text > > text being a pseudofile (I would call it a member function) whose contents > references random-image's but whose returned filetype is text, so that display, a > generic displayer, will display the image as an ascii dump, which can be very > useful (esp with FITS files, etc.) > </asbestos suit> > > David Feuer > > > > > > > > > -- > > brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net > > system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu > > electrical and computer engineering KF8NH > > carnegie mellon university > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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