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SubjectRe: Implementing Meta File information in Linux
Chris Wedgwood <chris@cybernet.co.nz> wrote:
> I really fail to see one single advantage of multiple forks over
> directories. Not one.

Also, I believe that there's nothing about linux that prevents flat
files from having directory methods. ext2 won't support this, but that's
a detail.

If you wanted to make a file which looked like some special kind of
executable and yet were you could cd into it and get at the data,
etc., you could do it. [Dunno if there are any good archive/executable
formats to base this on, and I've not actually implemented any such
thing to check for gotchas...]

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Raul

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