Re: Why no work on rsync?
Re: Why no work on rsync?
- Subject: Re: Why no work on rsync?
- From: email@hidden (Peter Seebach)
- Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:18:08 -0600
In message <a06010203c033b52d6276@[192.168.0.222]>, Peter Bierman writes:
>Not everyone agrees...
>
>http://lwn.net/2000/0817/a/lt-fork.php3
>
>Sadly, in more than 5 years, not much has happened with his request...
It's neat in theory, but fundamentally, "multiple files with the same name"
breaks assumptions in a huge amount of code. I've seen more OS X bugs to do
with resource fork handling *just in OS X* than I've seen filesystem bugs
in every other UNIX I've used, put together.
Me, I just wish the people at Apple, way back when, had just made resource
files be a Kind Of File, rather than introduced forks; sooooo much time has
gone into "and then on a Mac, sometimes there's more than one file with a
single name, so no existing API can read files portably".
-s
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