Re: Resource forks and such

allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
Sat, 10 Jul 1999 09:26:38 -0400 (EDT)


On 10 Jul, Fred Reimer wrote:
+-----
| Is there any reason that this ELF header tag thigamajig would not work
| for capabilities? I don't really know what I'm talking about (and
| admit it) but it may be something that people could agree on.
+---?8

s/capabilities/icons/ I presume, given the context.

Yes, it would work, and wouldn't require any changes... for ELF
executables. There are still shell/Perl/Python/Tcl/you-name-it scripts
to deal with, however --- not to mention icons for files. (The OS/2
model uses the .ICO-with-same-rootname mechanism for scripts etc., with
executables having their default icons as resources; EAs are used for
user-assigned icons.) This problem also came up with capabilities, you
may recall.

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