rothwell@flyingbuttmonkeys.com wrote:
>Alexander Viro wrote:
>> So you can open foo:barf, but foo* doesn't match it?
>> James, care to give your opinion on that, erm, addition to your proposal?
>
>If you had a file, "foo" with a stream "barf", "ls" would show this:
>
>$ ls
>foo
>$
>
>... therefore, "foo*" will not match it.
And, thus you've managed to break "tar-backupability" again. And you'll
have to come up with a new way of enumerating the streams in foo (how
else will you know which streams you can open). So in that case one
might as well go for the alternate API again.
/Christer
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