Re: Implementation Proposal for Subfile GSoC

[Chuck Silvers <chuq%chuq.com@localhost>]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 05:24:24PM +0200, Jan Danielsson wrote:
> Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> >>> OS Level - System Calls
> >> Is the API you suggest compatible with any other operating system?
> > 
> > The "other" systems which have this kind of feature seem to be
> > - MacOS and its "resource forks"
> > - Windows (NT style) and "alternative data streams"
> > - Linux and its support for NTFS ADS (don't know about MacOS resource
> >   forks handling on Linux)
> 
>    ..and OS/2 -- which called them "Extended attributes". [...]

... and solaris, which also calls them "extended attributes".
see http://man.cx/fsattr(5) .

-Chuck