Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2002, Stephen Shirley wrote:
>>>>or if that's not a goer then make another system call for true
>>meta-data. Call it fdata or someat.
>>> yuk.. yuk.. yuk....
>> there's no reason why meta-data cant be handled in userspace, as *Step
> proved.
>
Well 1 app in *Step. Did the command line tools
treat the "directories" like the GUI did?
The big advantage of doing it in the OS is consistency,
rather than every userspace app being inconsistent
or duplicating the logic to be consistent with each other.
Padraig.
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