Re: File system namespace resolution proposal

["Clive D.W. Feather" <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxx>]

yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
>>>> Problem Statement:
>>>> Current system implementors are looking for ways to associate extended
>>>> attributes with files in the file system namespace.
[...]
> It isn't a kludge to allow one particular implementation.

Then what is it for ?

If it's purely a reserved namespace for the implementation, then I can
agree that we should reserve such a space. The best proposal I've seen so
far is that names beginning ".#" (dot then hash) are reserved.

However, reserving such a namespace says *nothing* about making such files
special in any way; it's merely a set of names that the application
programmer and user must avoid.

*IF* the proposal includes giving these files special semantics (e.g. they
get deleted automatically when rmdir() is called) then I'm much less happy
with the idea. I would want to see very specific proposals.

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