Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:19:32 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 21:54, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The S_ISDIR/S_ISREG tests show real information: it shows not only user > intent ("you should consider this a file, even if it has attributes"), but > also whether it is a directory or a container. > > And there's a real technical difference there: the streams contained > within a file are bound to that file. The files contained within a > directory are _independent_ of that directory. Big difference. HUGE > difference. > > So it's not confusing. If it tests as a file, you think of it as a file. > It may have attributes aka named streams associated with it, and you may > be able to open those attributes by treating the file as a directory, but > that doesn't really change the fact that it's a file.
What about the attributes/named streams of a directory though? If you open it as a directory, you would get the files inside the directory. So how do you get at the attributes and named streams of the directory itself using this interface?
Best regards,
Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/, http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/
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