Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4
From: Andries Brouwer
Date: Sat Aug 28 2004 - 14:43:36 EST
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:16:47PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
If I see it correctly, you want to group a file and some
ancillary files together.
The Unix way would be to make a directory and put them all there:
xterm/xterm
xterm/xterm.icon
But you are unsatisfied and want
xterm
xterm/xterm.icon
As long as we agree that the latter really means the former,
there are no problems in finding out what should happen.
The conclusion is, that a directory carries an additional bit
that says "if I am opened as a regular file then use the file
of the same name inside".
Now there is no attribute space, just a shorthand.
Andries
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