> > be unified in a way I can serve it over NFS to boxes that dont make that
> > assumption and create the same layout trivially on a non resource forked
> > fs.
>
> Using colon-separated suffixes seems like a reasonable solution IMO.
colon would work for NTFS I believe. It also happens to sort of work for
the mac as ':' is the directory seperator - the problem is to create namespace
its not uncommon to simply swap / and :
> It even makes porting things from NT easier - they see the extra streams
> the same way they expect to.
> Anyone got any objections to this??
Need to fix stuff like apache so they dont blindly open the other streams.
You'd need an O_ option I guess. Remember the IIS holes serving other
streams ?
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