The access rules for the user.* namespace are already complicated enough; I don't want to further complicate them. We have been anticipating additional namespaces with different access semantics, but
Author: Ben Martin <monkeyiq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:55:23 +1000
OK, so if I defaulted to user.ferris-icon-x and then tried owner.ferris-icon-x I would have a somewhat valid solution. Also this would allow the user to copy the symlink and preserve the metadata fai
this is somewhat off-topic, but are you really sure EAs are the best place for this kind of info? please consider that UNIX is a multi user OS, in shared directories this method of storage will fall
I feel somewhat responsible for ext2/ext3, and slightly less so for reiserfs. For XFS the right contact would be Nathan Scott, or the linux-xfs list. We should try to make a coordinated move. I see.
Author: Ben Martin <monkeyiq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 23:04:39 +1000
OK, I'll keep cc'ing both lists if/when I get the patches going. What solution would you suggest? I have thought of adapting libferris to support a new symlink format, using regular files and pretend
Author: Ben Martin <monkeyiq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 23:08:18 +1000
Well, to solve multi user its easy to use user.ferris-icon-x-joe-black etc. Of the usual suspects ie: * efm style, using a .efm-meta file in the directory * out of line ~/.myapp/icondata.db * filenam
UGH, apples OSX does this and its gross, `symlinks' you create in the GUI are useless regular files in the shell. unless i misunderstood your intent in which case disregard. IMO GUI programs which li
Author: Ben Martin <monkeyiq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:07:49 +1000
It wouldn't be quite as painful in ferris because ferris being a library I add more and more support for it to bash as time goes by. so a cd my-strange-link; would work. Yep, I'd not deny access from
not everyone uses bash. there is absolutly no acceptable reason to reinvent("symlink") -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ Attachment: pgpUKLl0nuEPV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Author: Vincent Janelle <random@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 00:19:01 -0800
Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:07:49AM +1000, Ben Martin wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 06:46, Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:04:39PM +1000, Ben Martin wrote: I have tho