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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!djh
- From: djh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (David Hornsby)
- Subject: Re: CAP6.1 and Publish and Subscribe
- Message-ID: <9224220.13512@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <SANDY.92Aug28130057@beeker.cs.umass.edu> <BtpwEx.GE8@mtholyoke.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 10:45:33 GMT
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- jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- >The failure of CAP to conform to the AFP requirement that dirIDs be
- >constant and unique throughout the lifetime of the volume (filesystem)
- >appears to be breaking several recent features of the Mac OS: definitely
- >aliases, probably publish & subscribe. I would say it is time to rethink
- >this functionality... anybody working on that already?
-
- The next set of patches for CAP 6.0 will almost certainly include support
- for real fixed directory IDs as required by aliases etc. Unfortunately I
- can't put a definite date on this, but it will be as soon as possible.
-
- - David.
-