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SubjectRe: Implementing Meta File information in Linux
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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