Re: [dev] Suckless operating system

From: Antoni Grzymala <antoni_AT_chopin.edu.pl>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:28:01 +0200

Bjartur Thorlacius dixit (2010-06-14, 23:24):

> On 6/14/10, Matthew Bauer <mjbauer95_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wish modern filesystems would allow some way of identifying a file type
> > besides in the filename. It seems like that would make things more straight
> > forward.

> Surely many modern filesystem support xattrs (extended file attributes)?
> One should be able to use them to store media types.

Besides, hfs has had this feature (along with the whole data/resource
fork schizophreny) for the last 15 or twenty years.

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