Re: alternate simplified proposal #1

Parkson Wong (parkson@nas.nasa.gov)
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 09:45:36 -0700 (PDT)

>
> > ** In contrast to the existing proposal (10.7), implementation
> > directives may NOT be given in the filename, but rather
> > are specified in the "info" argument.
>
> Richard, can you provide some examples here?
>

Info (the new word for hints) is just a hint. We can't expect all
implementation to do something with it, so moving the directives from
the filename to info has quite different semantics.

In the original spec, if you open piofs:/foo, and that system does not
support piofs, an error will be returned. (It may not have specified
that way, but it is the intent of the spec.) If this is in the info, it
is just ignored.

-- parkson

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