How would we go about finding out how many data forks were in a file? Because in order to be able to retrieve data from a fork we would needDepends on how the forks eventually get implemented.
to know that the fork were there. Currently this would imply that we
go looking through mtab or some such to find out what fs we're running
on, which seems ugly.
Alternatively we go through the _exciting_ task of making every otherNecessary if some other mechanism is used, sure.
fs (with the exceptions of ntfs, and whatever it is that macs use,
which would need there own custom code) and add code that effectively
goes
getNumForks(fileref){ return 1;}