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- From: Annius Groenink <Annius.Groenink@let.ruu.nl>
- Subject: Re: reserved fields in stat structure
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 12:10:04 +0100 (MET)
- In-Reply-To: <199311301825.KAA18629@mail.netcom.com> from "Eric R. Smith" at Nov 30, 93 10:25:40 am
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- > I don't think we should use those fields for items like resource fork
- > sizes that are only applicable to one type of file system (the Mac one).
- > I think that for file system specific kinds of things, an Fcntl or
- > Dcntl call is more appropriate.
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- I think it would be very nice if we could set up communications for
- data and resource forks in some way, and add a new mode to one of the
- inquiry functions (like Dpathconf) which returns whether the file system
- can handle resource forks or not. This would fit perfectly in the way
- file systems are treated by MiNT in general (i.e., one always needs
- to check the properties of the file system before any action is taken).
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- This would give MiNT an advantage over UNIX. (Correct me if I'm wrong,
- but so far we're only trying to get as close to UNIX functionality as
- we can get).
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