Re: GS/OS FST

[bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)]

toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:

>Ah, but if you give the HFS FST a few revisions (and bug Dave a bit) it would
>meet that goal also.

>If you are going to do another file system don't invent yet another. Implement
>one that is already in use, like the unix one. Jawaid would probably kiss your
>feet if he could have permissions and hard links without kludging them on top
>of Prodos. (You _could_ encode permissions in the HFS filetype/creator or in
>the FinderInfo, BTW. Just don't let Matt D. catch you.)

  This has occurred to me, actually, and if not too many complain about
have a resource fork on _every_ file, then that's probably what I'll
have to do for GNO.  Who needs those silly creator types anyway?
(Lessee - one byte for owner ID, one byte for group control, one word 
 for permission bitfields, and one byte to bind them all!)

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