Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Huey <> | Subject | Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, Stallman, and loic | Date | Mon, 21 Jun 1999 01:36:25 -0700 (PDT) |
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> Ahem. > > I didn't imply that text files are good, only that having a directory > which contains the /etc/services entries isn't exactly a cool idea either > (neither is a text file, BTW).
> It's really a database. So use one -- glibc supports DB or NIS or > whatever else you want to implement.
The BeOS file system has a directory inode pointer within it's inode structure definition. The unused parts of the inode end being used as a high speed property/attribute list, while the directory inode pointer thing is use for the attribute overflow.
It's quite nifty and is useful for stuff like making a strong MIME type determination without any regard to the unclarity of using file suffixes.
It's a winner for me.
> Matthias Urlichs | noris network GmbH | smurf@noris.de | ICQ: 20193661
bill
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