Farid Hajji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > what about having the creation time of a file as an Hurd extension, which is > > > maintained across copies, like the author? > > > > It seems far more useful than the author bits. > > Why restricting meta data to a fixed set of attributes? > I've read about a (user-)extensible meta-data scheme some > years ago in a paper. Unfortunately, I didn't copy that or > its reference (arghhh) back then, and I can't find it now :(
One reason for this restriction I can think of is that the filesystems currently available in GNU/Hurd have such restrictions. Tar (POSIX tar, not GNU tar) already supports this. Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
