[Novalug] OS-X (re Linux)
James Ewing Cottrell III
JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Thu Oct 3 18:45:29 EDT 2013
Because they are OS Specific. And Unnecessary.
There is nothing that an RF can do that a related file can't do.
Dude, a File is an Ordered Collection of Bytes...Nothing Less, and
Nothing More. OK, there IS some Metadata: Owner, Group, Links, Times,
Permissions, etc, but that's in the Inode.
If you have a Web Page, the Images go in their own files...not in the
Enclosing Page's RF. Except under MACs. Databases might have an Index
File. Record Based files might have a Descriptor File containing the
Layout of the Structures and possible a Record Allocation Map.
As for a Clean interface...Extended Attributes? That's what SELinux
uses, and other things (cachefilesd?) also use them.
Then there is the lsattr/chattr bits on Linux.
It's Bad because it's Different...er...Non-Portable.
JIM
On 10/14/2012 2:14 PM, John Franklin wrote:
> Quite a list of assertions with nothing to back it up.
>
> For example, he says "resource forks are unclean." How are they unclean? What would "clean" resource forks look like? Are there examples of a similar features better designed in other systems? He may as well call then "not blue."
>
> jf
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