Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:23:02 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux |
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On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 12:32:16PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> Any scheme for resource forks has to solve the per-user problem > (no, keying resources by uid doesn't work, as users might change > uid, might have different uids per machine, and also you would need > to have write access to the resource fork somehow). > > (this has, I think, already been mentioned on this list but was > constantly ignored)
Locale, timezone and other information should be per-process/thread, preferably defined by a environment variable - because this is a userspace issue.
-cw
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