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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 11:11:00 +0100
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] file streams & metadata
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> The key part of this reply was "these particular", as they are very
>> platform specific and useless in a generic stream wrapper
>> implementation.
>
> Every stream wrapper doesn't have to implement them - as it doesn't have to
> implement conversion to socket, etc. But without this, it is impossible to
> create a stream wrapper that implements full range of filesystem functions -
> which means, wrappers are useless for dealing with filesystem. This is a big
> hole in functionality, and it should be fixed.

To hear that stream are useless for filesystem operation is very new to me.

I have to repeat what I said earlier, these specific informations
(ACL, reparse points or other OS/FS specific informations) are very
hard to implement in a generic way as you are proposing. As the idea
in itself is good, I have serious doubts that a useful (working and
portable) solution can be implemented with what is described in your
initial post (barely posix only).

-- 
Pierre

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