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Support file-dir duality #117
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What is file-dir duality? And how would applications use it? |
sometimes you really want both file and dir contents in the same filesystem node. some systems use these for resource forks. since POSIX doesn't have file-dir duality, and arguably forbids file-dir duality, most POSIX apps use the programming languages could use file-dir duality to allow submodules to be loaded from a file-dir node: instead of having, say, |
It would be nice if the filesystem API were allowed to support file-dir duality, tho we wouldn't expect most implementations to support it.
Many filesystems, from Mac "System 7" to Windows NTFS, and beyond, exhibit some form of file-dir duality. Whether the wasi runtime should expose it is another question, and will depend on the wasi runtime's goals, but it would be nice if it were at least allowed.
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