Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 | Date | Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:17:03 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@hist.no> said: > Matt Mackall wrote:
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> >Find some silly person with an iBook and open a shell on OS X. Use cp > >to copy a file with a resource fork. Oh look, the Finder has no idea > >what the new file is, even though it looks exactly identical in the > >shell. Isn't that _wonderful_?
> It is what I'd expect.
Great. That means that all the tools of the trade stop working. Sounds like show-killer feature to me.
> Now, use cp -R to copy the file > _with its directory_,
Either it is a file or a directory. Make up your mind. If you have no clear distinction, you'll only get messed up. Badly.
> and see if that fares better. If not - bad > implementation of fs and/or cp. The way I see file-as -directory > is that _file_ operations (like the reads issued by cat) only > work on the file part. You want the directory part? Use > directory operations such as those "cp -R" use.
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