Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Aug 2000 21:09:16 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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Hi!
> Note that this is a subset of what I wanted to make sure the Linux VFS > layer can do: if a filesystem has multiple forks in a file, the VFS > layer should be able to handle it by just doing the normal "readdir()" > and "lookup()" on such regular files. > > Of course, no UNIX filesystem does this, so it has never gotten any > testing. But the plan was (and is) that if somebody wants to implement > resource forks, then it should be possible without any hackery. > > Linux does _not_ use the ":" character, of course. Linux uses the same > old "/" that it always uses for delineating names. That's pretty > built-in into the VFS layer. > > But it definitely should not be impossible to have a file called > > ~/myfile > > and then access the "Icon" resource in it by just doing > > xv ~/myfile/Icon
Sorry, this is not going to work. I played with this with podfuk, and xv will probably stat myfile (just for fun), notice it is regular file, and refuse to try to open myfile/Icon.
What you however can do is xv ~/myfile#utar/Icon. This actually works for me.
Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
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