KA> That's the real benefit of the resource fork, actually -- to be
KA> able to stuff new data, and arbitrary data, into a file, with a
KA> semblence of organization, and then be able to do useful stuff
KA> with it, without confusing existing programs.
Currently you cannot do a read() on a directory in ext2fs. If you
allowed read() (and mmap etc.) on a directory to actually return the
data from a specific file in the directory (index.html :), you would
achieve many of the same benefits.
The major drawback is that some applications know that directories
cannot be read, and do not even attempt it.
Benny
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