Re: DogCows or Polymorphism in the Hurd

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:21 +0100, Patrick Negre wrote:
> By luck, i've no file ending with :*_tr.
> Ok, be POSIX compliant is good, and make distorsions is bad.
> But, POSIX don't handle polytype.
> So, forbid filenames which ends with :*_tr is a light evil in compare with 
> creating dynamic names in the fs, and having a decent solution to this 
> problem.

Perhaps (actually, I don't agree), but keeping the user in control is an
even better policy.

shap