Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:44:30 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov, Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com, Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite Message-ID: <37B9E5CE.8E7B8AFD@softweyr.com> References: <199908172148.OAA02073@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
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Don Lewis wrote:
>
> On Aug 16, 9:18pm, Terry Lambert wrote:
> } Subject: Re: BSD XFS Port & BSD VFS Rewrite
>
> } > I don't see how the namei recursion method prevents catching // as a
> } > namespace escape.
> }
> }
> } //apple-resource-fork/intermediate_dir/some_other_dir/file_with_fork
> }
> } You can't inherit the fact that you are looking at the resource fork
> } in the terminal component, ONLY.
>
> I don't think this is a good example. How would you access the resource
> fork of a file relative to the current directory? IMHO, the necessary
> goop needs to go at the end of the path name.
Pick a separator character that nobody in their right mind would use in
a file path. "\" strikes me as a good candidate. ;^)
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