[openbeos] Re: cp -p
- From: "Jonas Sundstrom" <kirilla@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 02:33:04 CEST (+0200)
David Reid wrote:
> > Why not have mkdir add the attribute?
> > Seems like a more consistent approach.
David Shipman replied:
> This wouldn't really solve the problem, since most of the
> attributeless
> folders
> a ) exist already in archives, on peoples harddrives etc
> b ) come from other (non-beos) systems (contained in zip files etc),
> and thus
> will not have the attributes present...
>
> ..and I still think having stat-based attributes would be really
> cool
> :)
I, for one, would not like to loose the possibility to have
multiple, differing mimetypes, for "subclasses" of folders.
(like "folder/mp3", "folder/image", etc)
Nobody's using folder "filetypes" that way now, afaik,
but the attribute -could- be used that way, and it could be nice.
/Jonas Sundström. www.kirilla.com
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