[plug] Alternative Data Streams (From OT)

[Mike Holland]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, James Devenish wrote:

> > > After all, given the wide set of allowed filename chars in UNIX there
> > > isn't anything you can borrow for the purpose.
> >
> > While it's true that ':' is already "in use" in UNIX as the path
> > separator, perhaps it would not be completely evil to re-use it

I don't think that was the point. Rather, ":" is a valid charater in a
filename. Doing a  'locate : |wc' on my box tells me that 1103 files
use it. Things could go really bad if the filesystem tried to re-interpret
it.

> I think I would have preferred to say "Since it's true that" rather than
> "While it's true that".

Nah. You were right the first time. Get some sleep :-)



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