Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:36:37 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: adrian@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <3727A995.F755CCDA@newsguy.com> References: <19990428103120.4917.qmail@ewok.creative.net.au>
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adrian@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > > Dom Mitchell writes: > >On 28 April 1999, Joe Abley proclaimed: > >> This all sounds very non-unixy. But I don't really know why. > > > >Because it's exactly what the Mac has been doing for over a decade. I > >don't think that there's anything terribly wrong with the idea. In > >fact, it's good we are making use of the facilities that our ELF > >changeover has bought us. > > > >The one problem I do see with this idea however, is that it only applies > >to binaries, and not data. > >-- > >Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator > > ... and so have pcs in the .exe file format. > > If you want to do it for data, then you would have to make mime-type > (or whatever you use to slap on a file type) part of the filesystem > entry. > > Or use extensions. Like what happens now. Or create a fs layer so all of the above would be moot. I find it really curious that layered filesystems seem to never be considered for the jobs they were created for. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness if that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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