On 4-mei-2005, at 18:32, Christopher Petrilli wrote: > On 5/4/05, Dethe Elza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> The trick is that on Solaris and SELinux they're purely an ACL issue >>> as far as I know. I believe Tiger is the first OS to fully deploy an >>> abstract meta-data infrastructure in the FS. While ReiserFS has it, >>> from what I'm told, it's not widely deployed. >>> >> >> Not entirely true, BeOS pioneered file metadata infrastructure, as >> well as multi-fork files, but OS X may well be the first mainstream >> OS to do so. >> > > Not to nit-pick, but multi-fork and metadata have existed on the Mac > since HFS's introduction in, I believe 1985/1986 timeframe. BeOS took > it much much further, but even the Mac was based on the meta-data > ideas that existed in the Star and Alto designs. > > In many ways, we're still trying to get to the 1970s. >
And the xattr API's were not an Apple invention. SGI seems to have them, Linux has them and there even seems to be a POSIX standard for them. Ronald _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
