Christopher Smith wrote:
They didn't *think* they were useless, but in practice, over time,
resource forks are used less and less at Apple,
More precisely, since Apple adopted a file system without resource
forks, they have to put it in the UI instead. Not unlike pre-HFS folders
on old Macs.
Ah, see on Unix you just use pipes to do that. Problem solved.
Unless you want to seek or something like that, yah. You can work around
it, if you want, by introducing what's essentially an entirely different
file system, sure.
Alternatively the "open, delete, and close later" trick would also work
for that.
Maybe.
And if you make a mistake here, ... the file is left behind?
I'm not sure I understand the kind of mistake you are referring to, but yes.
If someone sigterms your process, for example. *Nothing* you do at the
user level is going to clean up your files if you get a sig_kill.
No, as I said, I don't think Windows does this either. This is a thing I
miss from my mainframe days. :-)
I believe by directly accessing the facilities in NTFS you can actually
do this magic. The Win32 API doesn't really expose it, but I think if
you use MTS it does happen.
Ooookey. I'll take your word for it. :-)
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