Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:16:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Adding desktop support (please don't) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9904281311160.1946-100000@shell2.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904281422550.378-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > > Agreed, but I think you're missing the point. It's not the HAVING of a > resource fork that's the key, any programmer working in isolation can > have that. It's the having a standard place to stick those resource > forks, and a standard method to get and find them, that's the key thing. > > Doing this via elf, that could be a godsend, because it's such a natural > place to stick things. That's why I asked for a standard API for such a > thing. Folks probably looked at that request anf thought "but it's > trivial and can be done via objcopy now" but it's the advertising of the > standard, that FreeBSD will offer this neat place to put things, and a > standard way to get at them, that's where the real value lies. > The problem I have with this is, I'd like resource forks on all files. You could stick a small elf executable on the from of a data file, but that would break the UNIX file model. Brian Beattie | The only problem with beattie@aracnet.com | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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