Darren New wrote: > 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.
No, even before then. Resource forks basically started dying around the beginning of the PowerPC era. >> 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. Pipes just aren't different filesystem. They are an IPC mechanism. Using the filesystem as an IPC mechanism is generally hacky and error prone. --Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
