[openbeos] Re: FS attributes

  • From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 20:32:59 EST

> Don't you think it might make a lot of sense for that API to
> return a BPositionIO?

Yes.  If you read the BFS book you'll see that they made a design
decision not to have file handles to attributes.  Otherwise attributes
become like files and things get complexified (does an attribute
have attributes?).

- Alex

Other related posts: