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From: preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece)
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Subject: attaching properties to objects
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Date: 9 Feb 90 19:14:01 GMT
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I am currently looking at ways to support further typing of UNIX system
objects (files, processes, etc.).  I would appreciate pointers to
previous work in the area and to existing systems that support richer
models of system objects (particularly those that support attaching
arbitrary collections of named attributes to objects, as I understand
the Macintosh Resource fork allows).

I'm also interested in comments on how such features might be or have
been used, what a minimal ("in the spirit of UNIX") approach might look
like, and what you think might be critical aspects of such features (if,
for instance, your experience is that supporting a LIFO list of
properties works much better than a flat set, let me know).

Mail responses would be great and I promise to summarize whatever I get;
don't post unless you really think everyone would be interested.

Thanks,
scott
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scott preece
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