Re: we missed something wrt albods

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:32:50 +0200


Rik van Riel wrote:
> It's either non-transparancy _or_ the exclusion of one of
> both access methods to non-albod-aware apps.
>
> If we make it non-transparent (maybe with some magic required
> from the user), we can at least grant the user the possibility
> of accessing the albod as a file _and_ as a directory.

This is easy: "albod" -> file, "albod/" -> directory.

Noting that readdir() and O_DIRECTORY would work on both forms.

-- Jamie

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