[ILUG] "unix style" package management

[Stephen Shirley]

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 04:22:42PM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote:
> But wouldn't that expand the API a lot?
> I.E. instead of read("/path/file#resource_fork")
> you would have read_resourcefork("/path/file");

Well look at it this way, you already have to use fstat to figure out if
a file is executable, readable, writable, a link, etc etc. Adding
another field or 2 to that structure wouldn't be the end of the world,
or if that's not a goer then make another system call for true
meta-data. Call it fdata or someat.

Steve
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