From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 13:16:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jumping-spider.aracnet.com (jumping-spider.aracnet.com [205.159.88.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9437B157BB for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:16:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beattie@aracnet.com) Received: from shell2.aracnet.com (IDENT:1728@shell2.aracnet.com [205.159.88.20]) by jumping-spider.aracnet.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA19102; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:16:08 -0700 Received: from localhost by shell2.aracnet.com (8.8.7) id NAA05667; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:16:07 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: shell2.aracnet.com: beattie owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:16:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie To: Chuck Robey Cc: W Gerald Hicks , Alfred Perlstein , Warner Losh , John Birrell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Adding desktop support (please don't) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > > Agreed, but I think you're missing the point. It's not the HAVING of a > resource fork that's the key, any programmer working in isolation can > have that. It's the having a standard place to stick those resource > forks, and a standard method to get and find them, that's the key thing. > > Doing this via elf, that could be a godsend, because it's such a natural > place to stick things. That's why I asked for a standard API for such a > thing. Folks probably looked at that request anf thought "but it's > trivial and can be done via objcopy now" but it's the advertising of the > standard, that FreeBSD will offer this neat place to put things, and a > standard way to get at them, that's where the real value lies. > The problem I have with this is, I'd like resource forks on all files. You could stick a small elf executable on the from of a data file, but that would break the UNIX file model. Brian Beattie | The only problem with beattie@aracnet.com | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message