Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:03:10 -0400 | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux |
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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...]
-- Raul
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