rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us wrote:
> What's the point in making apps written before streams existed work
> with streams unmodified?
Mostly because there exists a lot of backup tools that are hard to
replace. If the rest of the company uses a backup server which
supports POSIX file systems you won't be very popular if you insist on
a special tool to back up your partitions, and lots of backup clients
aren't open source and thus can't be fixed.
> > The "files as directories" way is a big deviation from how things work
> > today, suddenly one can do opendir/readdir on a file
>
> Files with streams are not directories. I would not expect
> readdir() to work on them. There would have to be a different
> enumerator function.
Why change everything? Inventing a new API means that _all_ tools
have to be rewritten to work with alternate streams.
/Christer
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