Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:46:07 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: I discussed reading directories as files with jra, Stallman, and loic |
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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Bill Huey wrote: > The BeOS file system has a directory inode pointer within it's inode > structure definition. The unused parts of the inode end being used > as a high speed property/attribute list, while the directory inode > pointer thing is use for the attribute overflow.
Wow, Files-11 ODS2 rides again...
> It's quite nifty and is useful for stuff like making a strong MIME type > determination without any regard to the unclarity of using file suffixes.
...including syntax tagging. Cool.
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu Specializing in unusual perspectives for more than twenty years.
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