Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 2004 13:00:49 +0200 (CEST) | From | Giuliano Pochini <> | Subject | Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives |
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On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Spam wrote:
> Well. wasn't the idea that unless programs specifically tried to > open the file-as-dir as a directory it would look like a file? > > ls -F would show it as file. Or have I understood wrong?
Yes, otherwise apps that do
if (S_ISDIR()) { .. } else if (S_ISREG()) { .. }
would behave differently from apps that check the file in different order, and they would probably break because in a regular fs that order is not important. The goal is to keep the semantic changes as hidden as possible for apps that don't know about the new features.
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