Linux Kernel FAQ : forks/streams to Linux filesystems.

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Hello,

Regarding the question:

  15.Why don't we add resource forks/streams to Linux filesystems like NT has? 

of section:

  Section 9 - Feature specific questions

in the FAQ at, http://www.tux.org/lkml/,

and  your proposition  of implementing  this feature  at  user library
level, you'll may want to add that for the programmers inclined to use
Objective-C, there is already  such a library: GNUstep/Foundation, and
namely, the NSBundle class, which implement exactly this feature. 

More information about GNUstep can be found at http://www.gnustep.org/

Note that there exist API from :

    Java (JIGS at http://www.gnustep.it/jigs/),

    Smalltalk (StepTalk at http://decef.elf.stuba.sk/~urbane/StepTalk/), and

    Scheme (gstep-quile at
            http://www.tiptree.demon.co.uk/gstep/guile/gstep_guile_toc.html) 

to use  the GNUstep Objective-C objects, therefore  this class library
could be used in these languages too.

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