Re: need filetype field in directory entries

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Mon, 05 Oct 1998 18:52:19 -0300

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In message <199810052000.QAA26886@valhalla.cc.columbia.edu>, "Johan M.
Andersen
" writes:
+-----
| > At first sight this may look like a proposal to bloat the Unix file
| > system. But the filetype info really belongs into each directory
| > entry, because
|
| Are you sure it belongs in the directory entry and not the inode? Can two
| links to the same file have different types?
+--->8

It'd be one way to allow a file to be "opened" in multiple ways. I'd prefer
multiple registrations and a WPS-style "Open As" myself....

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