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| From | Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: A proposal to handle file encodings |
| Date | 2012-12-02 23:08 +0000 |
| Organization | UK Free Software Network |
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On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:52:58 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > We were obviously talking past each other. I was only talking about > mechanisms like xattr, alternate streams or resource forks, not about > revamping the whole unix file model. > I think that's likely. I've obviously not seen the guts of OS X resource forks, but I doubt their implementation differs a lot from what I was talking about: if they are not part of the OS's file handling system[*] they'd require all that messy stuff to be implemented in system programs and user-level libraries that you've described. I'm not advocating that Linux becomes OS/400 lite, just pointing out that metadata can be used in many ways, and that once you introduce the mechanism to transparently handle one attribute, such as character encodings, that there's quite a lot more that it could be used for. [*] I'm deliberately not saying Kernel because a lot of file handling stuff has already moved out of the kernel. A certain resemblance to Mach is creeping into Linux, though so far it is not nearly so fine-grained. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
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A proposal to handle file encodings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-22 13:36 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2012-11-22 23:36 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-22 17:20 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-22 20:25 -0500
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-22 19:47 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-22 21:28 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-24 15:51 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-25 10:18 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-25 18:05 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-27 19:51 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-29 02:22 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-12-02 13:02 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-12-02 19:36 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-12-02 23:52 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-12-02 23:08 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2012-11-25 13:13 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-25 18:07 +0000
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-23 16:33 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-23 09:02 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-23 19:21 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-24 00:11 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-24 00:53 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-24 09:13 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-24 06:50 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-25 10:07 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-11-25 11:06 -0600
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-27 19:28 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-24 06:42 -0800
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-25 09:57 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2012-11-25 15:09 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Sven Köhler <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com> - 2012-11-25 15:06 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-11-23 16:43 -0600
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-24 01:02 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-25 14:36 -0600
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-11-25 16:51 -0600
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-25 17:54 -0600
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-26 02:03 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-11-26 02:20 +0100
Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-11-26 02:46 +0000
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